Trump’s Hush-Money Trial Kicks Off With a Defiant Defendant, a Strict Schedule, and Supporters Outside

onald Trump was defiant and frustrated as he walked out of his first day on trial in New York. It was also the first day any former President had ever been on trial in 246 years of American history. But Trump didn’t dwell on the historic significance of the moment.

“We’ve got a real problem with this judge,” Trump said after court adjourned on Monday, wearing his iconic wide red tie and an American flag pin stuck in his jacket lapel. “We’ve got a real problem with a lot of things having to do with this trial including the DA, because you go right outside and people are being mugged and killed all day long and he’s sitting here all day long with about 10 or 12 prosecutors over nothing, over nothing.

Opponents of former president Donald Trump protest on the first day of his trial in New York City on Monday, April 15, 2024.Trump had sat for most of the day inside the stuffy courtroom, as his lawyers sparred with prosecutors over how the trial should run, and the makeup of jurors on the panel that will decide Trump’s fate. Some of the initial decisions on Monday didn’t go Trump’s way.

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