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Onlookers are tense and silent. And a squadron of armed court offi cers and Secret Service agents guards the room. But as Michael Cohen explained this week why he had broken with his former boss in 2018, after say- ing he spent more than a decade doing bidding, reporters turned away from him to stare at one of the most noticeable interruptions. A parade of Republican allies a governor and a former presidential candidate, among others marched into the court- room, living examples of the loyalty that Cohen had just described and would soon disavow. Central aspects of op- erating style are key to the com- plex story the Manhattan district offi ce has told.
And those hallmarks are all around the courthouse. Prosecutors are relying on Co- testimony, even as lead lawyer, Todd Blanche, took a sledgehammer to the former credibility this week, forcing him to acknowledge times in the past when he has lied under oath. But whether Trump is convicted, acquitted or the case ends with a hung jury, the trial has underscored the former favored tac- tics and behavior over the decades: using allies as bullies, obsessing over the press, placing a premium on beauty and encouraging shows of loyalty. That recognizable pat- tern has helped him win one elec- tion and may propel him to a sec- ond victory, as he has reshaped the Republican Party into an entity that stands for whatever Trump wants. Most days, Trump has been joined by Boris Epshteyn, top legal adviser and a controver- sial gure within the former pres- team.
Epshteyn was pre- viously represented by Blanche, whom Epshteyn helped usher into the Trump fold. Epshteyn started showing up in court for the rst time the day after he was indicted himself, in Arizona. That indictment was in connection with eff orts to create a slate of so-called fake electors to help keep Trump in power after he lost the 2020 election and refused to concede. Epshteyn was seen in court recently passing to a journal- ist a printout of a Truth Social post in which Trump mocked a frequent critic, lawyer George Conway, who has been in the courtroom covering the case for The Atlantic. Former female aides have tes- ed to the former deep love of his wife.
But even the presence of those aides and current ones who travel with him well- groomed and well-coiff ed em- phasizes the premium Trump puts on being seen as surrounded by attractive women. inter- est in being seen as a sought-after playboy was on display for decades before he became president. That behavior was at the heart of the recording, on which Trump is heard boasting about grabbing women by their genitals. Prosecutors have argued the recording was part of why Trump wanted to suppress a story from p*rn actor Stormy Daniels just before the 2016 election. And the number of elected offi cials or former candidates arriving to defend Trump has been a ec- tion of his constant demand that people rise up on his behalf and affi rm him, voiced privately and on social media.
In the early days of the trial, almost no one showed up with Trump, despite discussions for weeks within his world about who might ll the two rows behind the defense table that are reserved for the lawyers, support staff and family. But Trump complained to sev- eral people that he wanted to see more allies in the courtroom, and the word spread among elected offi cials who have long seen how Trump prizes loyalty. Sen. Rick Scott, showed up in the courtroom one day, which he said was at the urging of top adviser, Susie Wiles. He became a beacon of sorts for the ranks of politicians who would soon appear.
There were House members, state attorneys general and a governor last week, all lling seats reserved for the defense. There were also two contenders to be running mate, Vivek Ramaswamy and Sen. JD Vance. Their presence showed they were backing a presumptive nominee who has repeatedly complained that his previous vice president, Mike Pence, was insuffi ciently tough in the nal days of term. Even the House speaker, a staunch conservative who has in the past voiced an aversion to p*rnography, arrived outside the courthouse to defend the former president less than a week after the p*rn actor left the stand.
Inside the building, en- tourage has stretched the bounds of what courthouse rules allow. Some of his allies take advantage of exceptions granted to lawyers and support staff by sitting in the defense rows, using cellphones that are banned elsewhere in the court- room to send texts or post on social media about the proceedings. Photography and video record- ing are strictly prohibited inside state courtrooms. Still, the fact that news cameras have been in the courthouse hallway as has been done for other le defendants has allowed Trump to speak to the press and created an opportunity for his allies to create content on his behalf. On Tuesday, some of the same allies who interrupted testimony lmed a video of them- selves in the holding room the de- fense uses, again testing the bounds of what is permitted.
son Eric; his daughter-in-law, Lara; his former rival Ramaswamy; and two House members lmed a video titled Video From the need you to stand with Rep. Byron Donalds, said in the video, which was sent around in a Trump fundraising email. On Thursday, after prosecutors mentioned the interruption during testimony two days earlier, Justice Juan M. Merchan advised Blanche not to let it happen again. The defense lawyer protested, say- ing he had than zero control over what is And when Merchan asked him if he was ex- pecting anybody else that day, Blanche pleaded ignorance.
Honor, I have no he said, adding, not expect- ing anybody else. But I might be GINA KOLATA New York Times LARCHMONT, N.Y. When a patient with a severe traumatic brain injury is comatose, in in- tensive care, unresponsive and hooked up to a ventilator, but not brain-dead, when is the time to withdraw life support? A small study on the fates of people in such situations suggests that doctors and families may make better decisions if they wait even a few days longer than usual. Often, a doctor sits down with family members within 72 hours of the admission to in- tensive care to discuss the pa- prognosis and whether they want to keep their loved one alive or to remove life support. Experts say that many doctors would describe the outlook as grim most likely death or severe disability.
Reported outcomes of patients who had severe traumatic brain injuries show that most times the decision is to remove life support. The patient dies. The researchers behind the new study say that their limited data suggests that predictions so soon after the injury frequently are wrong. The study, published Monday in Journal of Neurotrauma, used a national database that included 1,392 traumatic brain injury pa- tients. Sifting through the data, they ended up comparing 80 patients with severe injuries who died af- ter life support was withdrawn, with 80 similar patients whose life support was not withdrawn.
In their analysis, the researchers found that most patients whose life support was continued died anyway in the hospital, within about six days. But who continued life support recovered enough in the next year to have some degree of independence. A few even returned to their former lives. Despite the limitations, data is really said Dr. Walter Koroshetz, director of the National Institute of Neuro- logical Disorders and Stroke, who was not involved with the study.
(The institute, part of the federal National Institutes of Health, originally funded the database used by the researchers, but it is now funded with grants from multiple sources.) The longer the family waits to decide, the better the prognostication will be, he noted. Uncertainty, though, is ev- er-present. Doctors know, Koroshetz noted, that recovery is slow and usually goes on for months or even years. But, he said, some patients who needed ventilators and were ex- pected to lead a life of extreme disability walk into the hospital a year later it up with the the he added. can make a good recov- But those are the rare excep- tions.
Most who survive end up with permanent disabilities. Recovery is not easy. Patients often have to spend months in rehabilitation centers, and, for some, the ultimate destination may be a nursing home. There is nothing about making a decision within 72 hours, Dr. Claude Hemphill of the University of California, San Francisco, said.
That time frame has become a convention because, he said, people look very sick when they come As a consequence, he added, physicians have felt compelled to make a decision Hemphill was part of the re- search group that supplied the data, but he did not enroll patients or analyze it for the study. Yelena Bodien, a neuroscientist at Massachusetts General Hospi- tal and Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, said that she and her colleagues were motivated to do the study based on their own ex- periences. Families visiting patients at the rehabilitation center had told her that doctors would say, loved one will never be able to walk or talk or return to she recounted. But her colleagues had a dif- ferent perspective, telling her, we make a decision early, we might be committing these pa- tients to a life they would not She said she saw the problem. are in an extremely diffi cult situation.
Patients are on the cusp of life or death with incredibly devastating she said. are under an immense amount of pressure to provide families with a precise CONGRESSIONAL MEMO trial highlights his prized tactics NEW YORK TIMES Vivek Ramaswamy speaks to reporters at Collect Pond Park outside of former President Donald criminal trial in New York this week. The former criminal trial has underscored what he has long valued: loyalty, beauty, press coverage and using allies as bullies. Study suggests waiting longer before life support pulled NEW YORK TIMES A new study found that 42 percent of those who had continued life support recovered enough in the next year to have some degree of independence. A few even returned to their former lives..
