'A lot of expression': Courtroom sketch artist Jane Rosenberg talks drawing Trump at his arraignment
Rosenberg’s newest subject was former President Donald Trump, whose arraignment provided her the opportunity to draw viral sketches of the defendant. Jane Rosenberg got her start as a courtroom sketch artist drawing prostitutes in New York's night court in 1980. Forty-three years later, Rosenberg's newest subject was former President Donald Trump, whose arraignment in Manhattan on Tuesday on 34 charges of falsifying business records provided her the opportunity to draw two viral sketches of the defendant. "My hands are just flying," Rosenberg said of the time sketch ing Trump. "My fingers were going faster than my brain, and then it was over." Former President Donald Trump sits at the defense table with his defense team in a Manhattan court, April 4, 2023, in New York. Seth Wenig/AP The New Yorker is publishing Rosenberg's sketch of Trump on the cover of its April 17 issue, the first time in its history the magazine printed a courtroom sketch on its co...