Drawing The Final Hours at the Trump Trial
The people rest
6 min readMay 21, 2024
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…