Trump Trial Day 1 Was Made Real by Threats of Ejection, Arrest

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

42% : "The journalist further elucidated that Merchan's threats of being ejected from the courtroom and being arrested and imprisoned made the first day feel particularly "real" for the embattled politician.Merchan also refused to let Trump attend next week's Supreme Court hearings about whether or not the one-time real estate mogul is immune from prosecution in a separate trial stemming from the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
32% : "Wallace, incidentally, presented the footage of Trump outside the courtroom with the caveat, "I promise we're going to come out of this if he starts lying or threatening people.
30% : After playing a clip of Trump addressing the media in which he complained about Judge Juan Merchan denying his request to attend his son's graduation, New York Times investigative reporter and MSNBC contributor Susanne Craig agreed, saying that "he's really angry and he's realizing that he's going to now have to sit there every day.
28% : "Wallace then asked NBC News political correspondent Vaughn Hillyard, "Has it ever been this real for Donald Trump?""I don't think there's anything much more real than a criminal trial," Hillyard replied.
24% : "Clearly what Donald Trump here is now looking at is the potential of attacking the judge who can be very well the one who determines what his sentence is.""This is the rare arena in which Donald Trump is not in charge of his own fate.
13% : "This is the rare arena in which Donald Trump is not in charge of his own fate," MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace saysFormer President Donald Trump was "a pretty defeated and deflated Donald J. Trump" after the first day of his hush money trial in New York City, MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace said Monday.

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