A number of Republican allies joined former President Trump in a Manhattan courtroom this week, including several politicians who have been floated as running mates for Trump as he seeks reelection to the White House this year. ing.
Before his trial on Tuesday, Trump was joined by House Speaker Mike Johnson, Reps. Byron Donald and Cory Mills, North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum and former 2024 presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. I was forced to stand aside.
Johnson held a press conference outside the courthouse on Tuesday morning, slamming Chief Judge Juan Melchán and the prosecution team for being politically motivated against Trump.
“What we have here is a partisan Democratic district attorney. We have a Biden donor judge, we have a recent top official in the Justice Department, a top official in Biden’s Justice Department, we have a recently “There are assistant prosecutors who were paid more than $10,000 by the Democratic National Committee,” he said.
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Congressman Byron Donald, Governor Doug Burgum, House Speaker Mike Johnson and Vivek Ramaswamy watch as former President Trump addresses members of the media in Manhattan Criminal Court on Tuesday, May 14, 2024. (Curtis Means/Daily Mail/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“Our justice system has been weaponized against President Trump. Our justice system is now using every tool at its disposal to punish one president and protect another. And all the while. , the judge’s own daughter is culpable in the atrocities here, “spending millions of dollars on online fundraising for Democrats,” said Ms. Marchand’s daughter’s role as a political consultant. I continued, citing work.
The former president was also joined Monday by Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, New York Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville and his son Eric Trump. Eric Trump was in court again Tuesday with his father, as was Trump’s lawyer Alina Haba.
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Politicians and congressmen such as Mr. Vance, Mr. Donald, Mr. Burgum, and Mr. Ramaswamy have all been floated as potential running mates for Mr. Trump.
A Trump campaign official told Fox News Digital that the supporters had volunteered to join Trump’s court to support a friend and were not invited by the campaign.
Trump returned to court on Tuesday for the 17th day of his trial, where the court is once again hearing testimony from his former lawyer Michael Cohen.
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Monday was an action-packed day in court, with testimony heard for the first time from President Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen. The lawsuit focuses on Cohen paying former porn actress Stormy Daniels $130,000 in 2006 to quash her claims that he had an affair with then-real estate mogul Stormy Daniels. is guessing. Trump denies her affair with Daniels.
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Prosecutors allege that the Trump Organization reimbursed Cohen and fraudulently recorded the payments as legal costs. Prosecutors are working to prove that President Trump falsified records with criminal or criminal intent. cover up a second crime.
Courtroom sketch of Michael Cohen being questioned by prosecutor Susan Hoffinger during Trump’s criminal trial. (Reuters/Jane Rosenberg)
Mr. Cohen testified that secretly recorded According to testimony, President Trump provided publisher David Pecker in September 2016 with evidence that Trump planned to compensate Pecker for purchasing potentially damaging articles. He said he shared it. Mr. Cohen added that he made the recording not only to appease Mr. Pecker’s belief that he would be rewarded, but also to maintain Mr. Pecker’s “loyalty” to Trump.
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Michael Cohen and former President Trump (Getty Images)
He also detailed to the court that he paid Daniels $130,000 of his own money to sign a non-disclosure agreement and obtain rights to her claims of infidelity. According to Cohen’s testimony, in October 2016, Cohen told President Trump that he would have to pay Daniels to keep his claims quiet. Ahead of next month’s election day. He testified that he discussed ways to fund the payments with Allen Weisselberg, the Trump Organization’s chief financial officer, but Weisselberg initially said he was not in a position to foot the bill.
Michael Cohen testifies that he secretly recorded President Trump in preparation for the 2016 election
President Trump will address the media on May 13th. (Seth Wenig/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
Trump’s supporters gather in large numbers ahead of Cohen’s testimony
Mr. Cohen said he did not discuss the matter with his wife and decided to raise funds through a home equity line of credit rather than withdrawing funds from his personal account.
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“The star witness here is Michael Cohen. I only heard a little bit of his testimony this morning, but it’s consistent with what he’s already done. This man is clearly on a mission of personal revenge. He is widely known as a witness of questionable truth, and no one should believe that he lied to Congress. “Even Mr. Cohen’s own lawyers have testified before the grand jury that he is not reliable, so there is nothing for the jury to weigh, and certainly not for this judge,” said Speaker Johnson. He said this in remarks outside a Manhattan courthouse on Monday.
