‘Are you missing my point?’: Trump attorney sharply upbraided by judge after jury goes home in hush-money trial

I’m feeling a little better because Trump’s lawyers are so bad.

Looks like the defense lawyers continue to piss off the judge. On cross examination, they tried to imply that Pecker had been inconsistent in who had attended an important meeting, giving Federal and state investigatiors diferent answers. To the point, that Hope HIcks had been present, when he spoke to the state. But that she had been absent when speaking to the Feds. So that Pecker must have lied in one of the interviews.

The state objected, the Judge ordered the jury out and got to the point. The defense was trying to purposefully misrepresent what was in the documents. Pecker never told the Feds Hicks was not at the meeting. Her name never came up. The defense was trying to imply that Pecker had positively NOT said Hicks was at the interview. That he must have lied in one of the two interviews but he only explicitly said anything about Hicks in the state interview.

Judge was not happy and will instruct the jury tomorrow that the defense was playing tricks. It again goes to the credibility of the defense.