Courtroom Clashes: Tales of Tsunami of Hate Deleted As Trump Calls Out Witch Hunt and Asks for Recusal

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by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

LITERARY SDNY, Jan 17 – E. Jean Carroll took the witness stand and now Trump, three tables back, faced her. The direct examination was methodical.

She had been in a small hotel room over 10th Avenue in Manhattan when what she called the wave of hate and slime rose up, splashing from the laptop she set up on a board.

 There was a death threat, she said, and the room's window was open. She deleted it, and more. She did not sleep. Then she told her friend online that she was fine as wine. 

   At the break her second lawyer Shawn Crowley asked Judge Kaplan to act on what she called Trump's loud stage whispers, like "It's true" when a video of him in the Buckeye State was played, and "It's a witch hunt." 

  Judge Kaplan obliged, telling Trump that his right to be present at his trial could be forfeited by disruptive behavior. Journalists ran to write their stories, but Kurt Wheelock had already tweeted his.

   Returning to the courtroom Trump's second lawyer asked that Judge Kaplan recuse himself, that Shawn Crowley had been his law clerk. Was it like the Engoran / Lisa G interplay just one block west? The cross began--

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