Drawing The Final Hours at the Trump Trial

The people rest

Liza Donnelly
6 min readMay 21, 2024

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The people rest.

The defense rests.

The first criminal trial of a former president has come close to a conclusion today. The attorneys for both sides will present their closing arguments next week and then the judge will charge the jury. They will then deliberate.

I decided to go down this morning, even thought I knew it might be only for a few hours. Yesterday, the judge had asked both sides how much time they needed to finish questioning Robert Costello…

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Liza Donnelly

Visual journalist/writer for New Yorker, New York Times, WaPo. TED, SXSW speaker. Looking to change world w humor. newsletter:https://lizadonnelly.substack.com