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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It reminds me of a couple of famous Chesty Puller quotes ...
Chesty’s quotes are incredibly acurate.
Akk we have to do for our paladin is send in the ammo.
How would the creeps in the MSM react if Biden had been dragged into court on an eight year old nondisclousure agreement - and stopped from campaigning?
I’ll bet the little sh*ts in the press would be screaming bloody murder. They can ‘see’ when their ox is being gorded... the current press has killed their profession.
Extradition says that’s wrong.
Dead judge. Good judge
Long past time for him to be BANNED...not just given a time out!
Good!
It’s about time.
WaWa was as bad. “Where do I order a milkshake “.
Almost as bad as Kerry ordering swiss cheese on a steak sandwich.
He blowed up again?
“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.”
Almost daily the media is reporting that Trump can’t stay awake during the trial
Yeah, that was another Biden flop.
He has been Death Star zotted!!
ZOT! I hope everyone on here before 2012 or so signup is zotted. Or the department of lunacy government surely can look them up and felony attack them.
This is what this site is all about, banning everyone. Any free speech? GONE and threatened with IRL attacks and so on.
They all deserve it for being trolls.
Can’t you ban more people, faster? We don’t need anyone on here at all. Just ban, ban, and more bans. And celebrate banning people that are conservatives. Just ban them all.
Cancel Culture is alive and well.
Pardon, I am dancing a rain dance. That all old timers on here get the zot. Rain, Rain, Rain and thunder. Rain and thunder. Please more lightening and banning.
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