Tuesday marks the start of the homestretch for the first-ever criminal trial of a former president, with closing arguments set to begin in a case that political observers and legal scholars will be picking through for years, no matter the outcome. All-caps chyrons will be deployed, and live blogs will chatter away.
For the viewers of “Under the Desk News” on TikTok, it will likely be something closer to another Tuesday.
“In my world, I’m not covering it as much,” “Under the Desk” creator and popular multiplatform newsperson Vitus Spehar told NOTUS in a recent interview. “The people that you want to learn from it are not learning from it, and the people who have already decided Trump is not going to face any consequences just can’t handle watching it.”