Posted on 04/28/2024 3:45:36 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Former President Donald Trump is expected to spend much of the next two months in New York City while he attends his criminal trial, a development that has forced him to reimagine political campaigning to match his unprecedented circumstances.
Since the trial began earlier this month, he has begun campaigning throughout New York City with the intensity of a competitive mayoral candidate, despite the Big Apple’s status as a Democratic bastion.
Pinning him to his hometown is Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who has charged Trump with 34 counts of falsifying business records in connection with a 2016 payment Trump’s then-attorney, Michael Cohen, made to Stormy Daniels. Trump has pleaded not guilty and contends that the case is part of a broader political witch hunt designed to derail his 2024 presidential campaign.
Judge Juan Merchan has ordered that the former president attend the trial and previously rejected his request to attend oral arguments at the Supreme Court on Thursday over his claims to enjoy presidential immunity in an unrelated case.
Merchan has further imposed a gag order on the former president, limiting Trump’s ability to publicly discuss key figures in the trial. Bragg has also asked Merchan to hold Trump in contempt over alleged violations of the order, though the judge deferred a decision this week.
Trump, for his part, has tied both the order and the trial to the alleged “witch hunt,” saying "[t]he Gag Order imposed on me, a political candidate running for the highest office in the land, is totally UNCONSTITUTIONAL! Nothing like this has ever happened before.”
"The Conflicted Judge’s friends and party members can say whatever they want about me, but I am not allowed to respond,” he continued in a Truth Social post on Wednesday...
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Biden even sent his government departments after Sheetz when Biden didn’t get the warm welcome he demanded.
-PJ
I saw a lawyer say that Trump should just get up and leave New York forever. They’re gonna find them guilty, no matter what. They can’t come after him if he leaves the state.
You definitely need to be attributed.
Who is going to stop them?
There are few men who make a good living copying Trump’s mannerisms and appearance.
Have them speak Truth Social on the courthouse steps...!
Even if Trump can’t win NY there is no such thing as bad free national publicity and the trial is drawing a lot of eyes and ears. And some dems, seeing robust, energetic, fighting Trump will look at Sleepy Joe and just say screw-it and not vote. Or vote for RFK Jr.
True.
I’ve heard Trump is planning a rally to be held at Madison Square Garden in NYC. That will be an amazing event.
If Trump does a Madison Square Gardens Rally, the Media will compare it to the Nazi Bund rallies held their before WW II.
If Trump eats dog poo on live tv, some posters here would tell us how delicious it is and that they’ve been doing it since they were kids.
Grow up, fuzzy.
You truly are unhinged. That sick post proves it.
No, never, sicko.
Just stop.
😇
You know what happened to joesbucks?
Keep it up and you’re next.
Has that poster been banned? More than you?
Yep.
Again!
Suspended.
Nope.
Suspension? Oh no. The horror.
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