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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Up yours, frat boy.
It seems that people get banned, even long timers, in joyous celebrations for saying the wrong things on here.
You might be... next?
Hi retread! What was your previous FR name? How many times have you been booted from here?
I see the bumhurt retread didn’t reply to your post. 😂
I don’t know how he does it. I was watching the Larry Holmes versus Mike Tyson fight on YouTube at Trump casino from 1988. He looked great at 42. Holmes was washed up when he lost to Tyson at 38. Ali was washed up when he lost to Holmes at 38. Meanwhile, Mick Jagger is still playing concerts at age 80 and Trump is still running for president. I guess tomorrow story is become a politician and a rockstar. I don’t know.
Sheetz is full of good sandwiches, a nice selection of beverages, junkfood, and motor fuel.
Biden is full of many things, none of them useful.
There’s a hard core of about 1/3 of the electorate that will vote for the democrat, no matter what the party nominates.
There’s a hard core of about 1/3 of the electorate that will vote for the Republican, no matter what the party nominates.
That poll is claiming that about 1/4 of the mushy middle prefers Mr. Trump to Mr. Biden.
The group of voters preferring Biden is unlikely to shrink; it’s already at rock-bottom. If Mr. Kennedy does not appear on the ballot, who will “his” 16% of voters prefer?
Caveat: Polls are barnyard stuff.
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