THE DAILY BEAST
The final day of Donald Trump’s three-month bank fraud trial began Thursday with spirited remarks from his defense lawyer and continued with an unexpected—and explosive—speech from the former president himself.
The closing arguments proceeded without interruption, despite an early morning bomb threat to the judge’s home—a sad culmination of the MAGA death threats and menacing calls to the courthouse that plagued the trial from the start and only increased with Trump’s fuming rhetoric.
As for the trial itself, which threatens to obliterate the billionaire’s famed real estate empire and was mostly decided before courtroom arguments even began, it was more standard fare Thursday.
That is until the judge made the surprise last-minute decision to allow Trump to speak—if the fiery politician would follow the rules of court decorum—only to have the billionaire launch into an attack against the justice system.
