'Down in the dumps' Trump pressing allies to attend his trial as MAGA stay away: analysis

As Donald Trump's hush money trial concludes its third week, the lack of MAGA supporters showing up outside— to say nothing of his wife Melania Trump — has led to a smattering of close allies of the former president taking a seat in the otherwise crowded Manhattan courtroom where he is facing 34 felony counts.

According to Salon political analyst Heather Digby Parton, the former president has been looking forlorn at his daily courthouse appearance to hear testimony in his hush money trial.