“When the judge overseeing Donald Trump’s bank fraud trial reminded him this week that he alone would decide his fate, the incensed former president leaned over to the lawyer on his left and grumbled, ‘I wish I’d had a jury trial,'” the Daily Beast reports.
“But there’s a reason Trump isn’t getting a jury trial: His own attorneys didn’t ask for one.
At least, they didn’t ask for one using the proper legal channel and on the correct legal timeline, according to court records and the lawyers themselves.”