Katy Tur Shreds Boebert and Gaetz Showing Up at Trump’s Trial: There Was a ‘Mean Girl Quality To Their Presence’
MSNBC’s Katy Tur invoked the “Mean Girls” movie when describing the mood in court Thursday where Donald Trump’s hush money case has been underway for nearly three weeks.
Tur began by talking about the jury members trying not to make eye contact with the former president.
“Another thing that struck me…when the jury walks in, they walk right by Donald Trump, they walk right by the table he’s sitting. None of them look at him. The second they get in front him, right in his line of sight, they all look down. Each one of them, one after the other. They make a point not to look at him, as if there’s something almost — I’m not them, so I can’t accurately say what they’re feeling with any exact knowledge — but it almost seems like there’s a certain intimidation quality just walking by the former president of the United States.” She continued:
In terms of the atmospherics of the room, beyond Blanche, beyond Cohen, Donald Trump walks in with all the normal swagger that Donald Trump always has. You’ve seen it and you can imagine it accurately, because we all know him so well at this point. He also walks in with quite a big entourage. Today, it was Lauren Boebert, it was Matt Gaetz, Boris Epshteyn is always there.
There something of a —it felt to me like a “mean girl” quality to their presence. They walk in stoic, stone faced. But when they sat down, they looked around the room. They noticed George Conway. They started to snicker. Everybody stared right at George Conway and whispered among themselves. They did sort of the same thing looking at Michael Cohen.
You get the idea that Donald Trump bringing this crowd with him is not just a show of force for the cameras outside, but it’s a show of force for the witness inside. Potentially even the jury. Can you get under Michael Cohen’s skin by not just showing him Donald Trump sitting at the defense stand, but all of his entourage with him? The lawmakers who have yelled at him in Congress, the potential V.P. candidates, Donald Trump’s own family, former colleagues of his, Boris Epshteyn there. Trying to see if anyone can know him off his game.
A list of about a dozen GOP congressmen showed up Thursday in support of Trump, and spoke outside the courthouse, calling the trial a “sham” and ranting about the judge’s daughter working for Democrats.
Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts against him.
Watch the clip above via MSNBC.
