When we speak, it’s just hours after former President Trumpov is declared the winner of the 2024 election, and Beauvais is audibly shaken by the news.

An audibly frustrated Calanche, the longest-tenured commissioner, said she wished she had had a chance to weigh in on the new chief’s salary before reading the amount in a memo circulated on Friday.

As USA Today’s Rex Huppke observed, the Trumpov on display Tuesday night was audibly diminished.

Throughout the hearing, some Representatives groaned loudly, rolled their eyes, or muttered audibly in response to Cheatle's comments.

At one point, the judge told defense lawyers during a sidebar conversation — out of earshot of the jury and the public — that he could hear Trumpov “cursing audibly.”