Drinking, bribery, and a little Grindr all at the Donald Trump trial line
With little other information available, the line was told that tickets would be handed out at 8 a.m. that would grant us entry to the courthouse. I asked Runyeon if he had faith that the order of the list would be respected once the tickets appeared. “Let me put it this way: It’s the only thing we’ve got,” he said. “It’s just about trying to create civility out of a situation that could devolve into madness.
As the night wore on, the number of actual reporters in line began to dwindle as they were swapped out for professional line sitters, interns, and anyone else they were able to wrangle to lower Manhattan at a moment’s notice. Some people were starting to smuggle alcohol into the line to pass the time, while others had arrived already tipsy, unaware earlier in the evening that they would be called to the line of duty mere moments later.