'Sounded very tired': Trial reporter shares ex-president's condition as he awaits verdict

As a jury weighs whether to convict or acquit the 45th president of the United States — Donald Trump may be feeling the fatigue.

After giving his speech to reporters on Wednesday, Trump called for New York Judge Juan Merchan to unilaterally put an end to the case.

But after he did so, CNN reporter Kristen Holmes observed that Trump comported himself with a seemingly weak disposition.

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"One other thing I want to note: Donald Trump sounded very tired," she said in a dispatch to anchor Jake Tapper. "This is a long day for a man who is almost 78-years-old; the result, sitting in the courtroom a through all of these procedures, not really doing anything, waiting to hear if there's going to be a verdict."

“The judge ought to end it and save his reputation,” a visibly worn-out Trump told the reporters outside the courtroom after a slog of a day.

He took aim at the prosecution's abridged witness list, saying, “a lot of key witnesses were not called” even though he decided to remain mum under oath and his defense only called two witnesses to testify to counter the evidence brought against him. "They didn't call them obviously because they would have been very bad witnesses for them."

Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records originating from a series of payments tallying $130,000 of hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016 based on her allegations that they had sex in a Lake Tahoe hotel room a decade earlier.

Trump's former fixer and attorney Michael Cohen played the bagman to deliver the sum and the Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and his team of prosecutors claim Trump masked the payments to Cohen to prevent the exposure of the alleged infidelity.

Trump complained that the case itself was “very unfair” and blamed the cause of it on a "Biden witch hunt” and “weaponization.”

Yet, Holmes reported that there are folks in Trump's camp that believe the longer the jury is holding out, the better their chances are for a potential hung jury or even an acquittal.

"I am told by his team that they are hoping that this lengthier period of time that it wasn't a quick conviction or a quick verdict means something optimistic for the former president," she said.

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