New York Times correspondent and CNN analyst Maggie Haberman told CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins that people close to ex-President Donald Trump in the courtroom admit he has been sleeping during his trial — but pointed out “it’s not always sleeping.”
On Wednesday night’s edition of CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, Haberman — who was first to report the breaking snooze — revealed sources around Trump confirm he has been sleeping.
But she also minimized the importance of the story and went out of her way to say that sometimes he’s just “sitting there with his eyes closed for long periods of time” as a way of “compartmentalizing” negative testimony:
HABERMAN: Yesterday was very tense in that courtroom. And there have been some days that have been tense. Some days have been pretty lax.
Yesterday was very tense for a couple of reasons. The testimony that you’re talking about, you had Keith Davidson, the lawyer for Stormy Daniels, …
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