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Trapped by court case, Trump turns Big Apple into his political playground
Just the News ^ | April 28, 2024 2:08am | Ben Whedon

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...

(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: biden; bragg; cucksnevertrumpamus; maga; newyork; newyorkcity; obama; peachynevertrumpamus; trump
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61 posted on 04/28/2024 11:15:56 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: Candor7
Pinning him to his hometown is Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, ...

It reminds me of a couple of famous Chesty Puller quotes ...


62 posted on 04/28/2024 11:27:31 PM PDT by TigersEye (Our Republic is under seige by globalist Marxists. Hold fast!)
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To: TigersEye

Chesty’s quotes are incredibly acurate.

Akk we have to do for our paladin is send in the ammo.


63 posted on 04/29/2024 12:19:43 AM PDT by Candor7 (Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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To: All

64 posted on 04/29/2024 2:03:59 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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.


65 posted on 04/29/2024 5:49:10 AM PDT by GOPJ (.Has Nancy Pelosi called for the leader of Hamas to step down yet? If not, why not?)
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To: roving

Extradition says that’s wrong.


66 posted on 04/29/2024 5:53:39 AM PDT by MortMan (Charter member of AAAAA - American Association Againt Alliteration Abuse)
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67 posted on 04/30/2024 3:03:52 PM PDT by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Dead judge. Good judge


68 posted on 04/30/2024 3:08:14 PM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Hamascide is required in totality)
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To: Bikkuri

Long past time for him to be BANNED...not just given a time out!


69 posted on 04/30/2024 3:18:51 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Bikkuri

Good!

It’s about time.


70 posted on 04/30/2024 3:36:20 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: Liz

WaWa was as bad. “Where do I order a milkshake “.


71 posted on 04/30/2024 3:38:09 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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To: Bikkuri

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FK-hU7FT0VE&pp=ygUeSmFja2FzcywgIGhhaXIgY2xpcHBlcnMgYW1idXNo


72 posted on 04/30/2024 3:53:26 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Fledermaus

Almost as bad as Kerry ordering swiss cheese on a steak sandwich.


73 posted on 04/30/2024 3:54:22 PM PDT by Trump_Triumphant ("They recognized Him in the breaking of the Bread")
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To: Bikkuri; Lazamataz

He blowed up again?


74 posted on 04/30/2024 3:59:23 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: bigbob

“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


75 posted on 04/30/2024 4:13:21 PM PDT by Armscor38
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To: Fledermaus

Yeah, that was another Biden flop.


76 posted on 04/30/2024 5:04:49 PM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. )
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To: Bikkuri

He has been Death Star zotted!!


77 posted on 04/30/2024 8:50:07 PM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: DarthVader; Bikkuri

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.


78 posted on 05/01/2024 4:10:04 AM PDT by Conway Feebs
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To: Bikkuri

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.


79 posted on 05/01/2024 4:12:35 AM PDT by Conway Feebs
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To: Bikkuri

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.


80 posted on 05/01/2024 4:14:59 AM PDT by Conway Feebs
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