'Sad to watch' Eric Trump witness his dad's sleazy deals described in court: legal analyst
Eric Trump attended his father's trial in the hush money case involving adult film actress Stormy Daniels, and a courtroom observer described what she saw as a "sad" spectacle.
Former President Donald Trump is facing a criminal trial on charges of falsifying business documents to conceal payments to the adult film star to prevent her from telling voters in 2016 about their alleged extramarital affair, and MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin told "Morning Joe" about the atmosphere Tuesday in the courtroom after the trial resumed.
"I will tell you where I sat in the overflow room yesterday, Donald Trump appeared to be asleep or resting more often than not, particularly during the first part of the day where we heard from witnesses who were there as mostly records custodians," Rubin said. "On the other hand, where the subject matter is very clearly Donald Trump and what Donald Trump might have been thinking, like we've seen, for example, with Keith Davidson's testimony or the more explosive moments of David Pecker, Donald Trump is sitting there and appraising and watching. He is selectively choosing when to engage, but particularly in the morning this was not a person very interested or enraptured what was going on."
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Davidson, an attorney who represented Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal, who also allegedly had an affair with Trump, testified that he brokered deals to sell the women's stories to Pecker, the former National Enquirer publisher, and Rubin was struck by the ex-president's son Eric Trump hearing that testimony.
"No, having Eric there was sad to watch," Rubin said. "This might have been the first time Eric has seen some of these documents, and I and other reporters noticed at times Eric Trump was looking at the documentation through which this deal was done, including emails between [former attorney Michael] Cohen and Davidson and looking at them interestingly. In particular, the contract between 'Peggy' and 'David,' the pseudonyms for Donald Trump and Stormy Daniels watching Eric watch those documents as a human being struck me. These people are people, too."
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