After a constructive start, Trump yawns, sits back and surrenders control

Former US president Donald Trump speaking to the press after visiting a construction site in Manhattan, New York. Another day in court followed. Photograph: Hiroko Masuike/New York Timeswith an arranged visit to construction workers on a Park Avenue project before his security cavalcade escorted him to another drear day in court. He signed his patented Make America Great Again red baseball caps and enjoyed the chants and cheers of his supporters.

Donald Trump receiving an early morale boost during a meeting with union workers at the construction site in Manhattan. Photograph: Hiroko Masuike/New York Times The morning session passed by with “Candidate Trump”, as the prosecution referred to the former president, watching chief prosecutor Joshua Steinglass guide the first witness, former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker, through the invoices and paperwork of an agreement reached with Karen McDougal, a former Playboy model. This was back in the halcyon summer of 2016: Trump on an impossible run and the Clinton campaign unwilling to see that it was steaming towards an iceberg.

The purchase, for $150,000 of the limited life rights included details of “any romantic, personal and/or physical relationship McDougal has ever had with any then-married man” which, Pecker said, he took to mean Donald Trump. After the invoice was completed Cohen told Pecker that his client wanted to take possession of all files relating to him.

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