Trump vows to make his voice heard in court as first week of trial draws to a close. Here's what you missed on Day 4.

Four days into the first criminal trial of a former president, Donald Trump was showing signs of frustrations.

He had listened to scores of New Yorkers express less-than-favorable opinions about him, was restricted in what he could say in court, and had even been told to sit down by the judge.

“Sir, can you please have a seat,” said Juan Merchan, the soft-spoken judge who is presiding over Trump’s hush money trial, when the former president thought Friday's proceedings were over and got up to leave.

As Trump returned to the defense table, Merchan thanked him.

Trump exited the room minutes later looking weary and promising to testify at the trial, which he slammed as a “witch hunt.”

His comments capped a week that was filled with power reversals and accusations turned upside down.

Trump, who prosecutors say made hush money payments to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, is attempting to make a parallel case in the court of public opinion.

Speaking to reporters on Friday, the presumptive Republican nominee for president groused that “instead of being in Pennsylvania or Georgia, or North Carolina or lots of other places today, I’m sitting in a courthouse all day long,” adding that the process “will go on for another four or five weeks.”

The trial is expected to last as many as six weeks.

Trump, who is required to be in court for the duration of the trial, also accused the district attorney’s office of waging interference in the 2024 presidential election on behalf of President Joe Biden by “keeping me off the campaign trail.”

He went on to argue that he was “not allowed to speak” after the judge said he must curtail his social media attacks against potential witnesses in the case, and later told supporters in a