(04-19-2024, 05:17 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/18...y-00153247

Trump spent the day listening to strangers insult him. And he couldn’t say a single thing back.

In its first week, Donald Trump’s criminal trial is forcing the former president, a man who famously surrounds himself with sycophants, to sit quietly and listen to the unfiltered opinions of those typically kept at arm’s-length: People he might call his “haters.”

During jury selection, Trump has heard himself described by those under consideration as racist and sexist and a narcissist. He’s been presented with social media posts calling for officials to “lock him up.” He’s been told, to his face, that he’s “very selfish and self-serving.”