Former President Donald Trump took to Truth Social Thursday to set the media straight on a crucial point of his criminal hush money trial.
“I don’t fall asleep during the Crooked D.A.’s Witch Hunt, especially not today,” Trump declared. “I simply close my beautiful blue eyes.”
Trump delivered this assessment of his physical beauty and mental focus in an apparent rebuttal to multiple reports that he frequently dozes off in the Manhattan criminal courtroom where he stands accused of covering up hush money paid to an adult movie star.
New York Times writer Maggie Haberman spotted Trump nodding off on his first day of court and later put the tally at three courtroom naps in four days.
Former prosecutor Harry Litman also saw Trump take a “bonafide nap” and two quick dozes on Friday.
“FAKE NEWS MEDIA,” Trump declared. “[I] listen intensely, and take it ALL in!!!
This rebuttal was met with almost immediate mockery on the social media site owned by his eponymous media company Truth Social.
Maggie Haberman told CNN on Wednesday night, “But sometimes, he is — sometimes he is sleeping. That is a 100 percent true. I’ve seen it. People around him have confirmed to me that he has been sleeping at times that we have said he is.”
“However, sometimes he is closing his eyes,” Haberman noted, adding, “And I’ve talked to people around him about this too, because that is how he tries to just basically stay calm and deal with it. And whether that then leads to sleep or whatever, who knows? But he is sitting there with his eyes closed for long periods of time. It’s not always sleeping.”
On Thursday, Trump decided to push back on those reporters and wrote on his Truth Social, “Contrary to the FAKE NEWS MEDIA, I don’t fall asleep during the Crooked D.A.’s Witch Hunt, especially not today. I simply close my beautiful blue eyes, sometimes, listen intensely, and take it ALL in!!!”
The irony of Trump sleeping during his trial has not been lost on many in the pundit class as Trump has long dubbed President Joe Biden “sleepy.”The post Trump Denies Sleeping During Trial: ‘I Simply Close My Beautiful Blue Eyes’ first appeared on Mediaite
