An MSNBC Legal Analyst, Adam Klasfeld, was inside the courtroom yesterday. He reported on The Last Word last night that a juror was nodding along (in apparent agreement, I surmise) when Trump’s lawyer said, “There's nothing wrong with trying to influence an election. It's called democracy." My stomach sank.
In years of public speaking I've learned that nodding people in the audience doesn't necessarily signify agreement. Sometimes it's just to show that the audience member is listening closely. That happens more when women are doing the nodding; men don't do it very often.
An MSNBC Legal Analyst, Adam Klasfeld, was inside the courtroom yesterday. He reported on The Last Word last night that a juror was nodding along (in apparent agreement, I surmise) when Trump’s lawyer said, “There's nothing wrong with trying to influence an election. It's called democracy." My stomach sank.
In years of public speaking I've learned that nodding people in the audience doesn't necessarily signify agreement. Sometimes it's just to show that the audience member is listening closely. That happens more when women are doing the nodding; men don't do it very often.
However that's not what he's charged with. In our democracy, conning voters is not a crime, falsifying business records in the process is.