NEW YORK CITY — Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to visit a midtown Manhattan fire station Thursday night to honor first responders following a hours-long courtroom session in an unprecedented criminal trial.
The former president and potential 2024 Republican presidential candidate visited the same New York City fire station in 2021 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2021 terrorist attacks. arrived with pizza.
Trump spent the day in a Manhattan courtroom, witnessing testimony and cross-examination regarding the criminal charges against him. The justices also heard arguments from prosecutors and Mr. Trump’s defense team about the former president’s alleged violation of a self-imposed gag order.
The FDNY, which has hosted leaders from nearly every political party, said it appreciates those who support first responders.
“We are grateful to those who support FDNY members, regardless of their political affiliation,” the department said in a statement.
President Trump says criminal trials are having a ‘counterproductive effect’, campaigns at New York bodega, vows to save city
The former president slammed the criminal trial and lawsuit brought against him as “election interference.” He said prosecutors were working with the White House to prosecute Biden’s political opponents and that Democrats were trying to keep him in court and away from the campaign trail.
Former President Donald Trump stopped by a midtown Manhattan fire station to deliver a pizza after his day in court. (Fox News)
But Trump spent the day on the campaign trail Wednesday, holding events and rallies in Wisconsin and Michigan. Court will not be in session on Wednesday.
President Trump said he believed the prosecution would have a “counterproductive effect” on the presidential election and that his supporters knew the case was “rigged” and “unfair.”
But Trump is taking advantage of being detained in New York City.
Last month, President Trump visited an upper Manhattan bodega after a day in court.
A large crowd greeted him with chants of “Trump, Trump, Trump,” “Four more years,” and “We love Trump.” The crowd was singing the national anthem.
President Trump said the case would force him to “campaign locally, and that’s fine.”
This courtroom sketch shows former President Donald Trump’s attorney Todd Blanche in Manhattan Criminal Court in 2016 on charges of falsifying business records to hide funds paid to silence porn star Stormy Daniels. provides an example of social media during the gag order hearing in President Trump’s criminal trial. Thursday in New York City. (Reuters/Jane Rosenberg)
“We’re doing better now than we’ve ever been, so I think that’s working against us,” Trump said at a bodega.
“We’re going to intervene. First, we have to stop crime. And we’re going to let the police do their job. We’ve got to take back their authority. They have to do their job. “We need to be able to do that,” Trump said. “And we’re going to go into New York. We’re going to make big plays for New York and other cities as well. But this city, I love this city.”
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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg indicted Trump on 34 counts of first-degree falsification of business records.
Mr. Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges against him.
