Despite being found guilty, former President Trump has emerged from a “frosty” New York City courtroom after a six-week trial and is ready to start campaigning again, with his team warning President Biden’s team to “pull your pants down.”
In New York v. Trump, Trump was convicted of all 34 first-degree counts of falsifying business records.
Judge Juan Merchan, who presided over the case, said Trump would be required to appear in court every day of the trial, except Wednesday, when there is no trial in session.
The former president has spent the day lambasting the judge and Democrats who trapped him in the courtroom, repeatedly telling reporters and supporters that the courtroom is “freezing cold” and that it’s like being trapped in a “freezing cold refrigerator.”
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Former Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump campaigned at the Sanaa convenience store in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City on April 16, 2024. (Reuters/Adam Gray)
“Unscrupulous Joe Biden and Democrats have locked President Trump in court for over eight hours a day for over six weeks, and yet he keeps winning,” Trump campaign spokesperson Caroline Leavitt told Fox News Digital. “Now that he’s fully back on the campaign trail, Biden and Democrats had better pull themselves together.”
Levitt told Fox News Digital that Trump “earned billions of dollars in media coverage throughout the trial, held massive rallies and impromptu campaign rallies in and around New York, widened his lead over a fraudulent Joe Biden in the polls, and raised more money than Biden and the Democrats in April. Even this witch-hunt trial has not weakened Trump – if anything, it has only strengthened him.”
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The presumptive 2024 Republican nominee used the trial’s location in New York City to highlight Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s declining approval ratings since he took office.
First, President Trump was warmly welcomed by New Yorkers at a bar in Harlem in northern Manhattan, where he vowed to “fix New York.”
Trump was greeted by a large crowd chanting “Trump, Trump, Trump,” “Four more years” and “We love Trump.” The crowd sang the national anthem.
President Trump delivers pizza to the New York Fire Department after his day in court (Fox News)
Trump has called the trial and the charges against him “rigged,” “it’s all politics,” and ” [Biden] White House.”
And that day, the former president decided that a criminal trial could actually be “counterproductive.”
“I’m going to be campaigning at home, and that’s OK,” Trump said. “I think it’s actually counterproductive because we’re doing better than ever.”
Trump halts campaign after day in court, delivers pizza to NYC firefighters
“We’re going in, we’re going to start by stopping crime and getting the police to do their jobs. We’ve got to get the police back in control so they can do their jobs,” Trump said. “And we’re going in New York. We’re in New York and other cities in a big way. But this city, I love this city.”
Trump said the situation in New York has “gotten very, very bad over the last three or four years.”
“And we’re going to fix New York. So by running for president, we’re going to hit New York hard. We’re going to win New York,” Trump said.
Attendees cheer during a campaign event with former President Trump at Wildwood Beach on May 11, 2024 in Wildwood, New Jersey. (Hannah Beyer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
About a week later, Trump had his day in court, but on his way home, he stopped off at a fire station in Midtown Manhattan to deliver pizza to emergency workers — the same New York City fire station Trump visited to mark the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2021, terrorist attacks.
Trump posed for photos with the firefighters, both individually and as a group, and left pizza behind without saying anything to reporters.
The former president was scheduled to hold rallies and campaign events around the country on Wednesday before returning to New York City first thing Thursday morning to stand trial.
Trump vows to ‘save’ heavily Democratic New York City at massive, historic rally in the Bronx
Trump’s only other day outside of the courtroom besides Wednesday was on May 17, when he returned to his family’s Palm Beach, Florida, home to attend and celebrate his youngest son, Barron Trump’s high school graduation.
Former President Trump spoke at a campaign event in Wildwood Beach, New Jersey, on May 11, 2024. (Hannah Beyer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Trump also held rallies in and around New York City, drawing historic crowds to traditionally Democratic neighborhoods.
Trump held a rally in Wildwood, New Jersey, the largest political rally in the Democratic-leaning state of New Jersey, where between 80,000 and 100,000 people gathered to support the presumptive Republican nominee.
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“As you see today, we’re expanding our constituency because we’re going to win New Jersey,” Trump said at the rally. “We’re going to win every state. Millions of people across America, in so-called blue states, are joining our movement based on love, intelligence and what we call common sense.”
Then just a few weeks later, Trump held a massive, historic rally in the Bronx ahead of Memorial Day weekend.
Former President Trump campaigns at Crotona Park in the Bronx, New York, on May 23, 2024. (Bing Guang/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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Trump drew a crowd his campaign estimated at 25,000 at Crotona Park in the Bronx, far exceeding the 3,500 people originally expected to attend.
“I’m here tonight to say that we’re going to build New York City back, and we’re going to build it back very quickly,” Trump said after the speech. “We’re going to build New York back bigger and better and greater than ever before.”
With President Trump’s trial over and a debate between the two leading candidates scheduled for an unprecedented early date of June 27, the race for the presidency with Biden is unlikely to slow down in June.
President Trump’s sentencing hearing for his criminal conviction in New York City is scheduled for July 11, just days before the start of the 2024 Republican National Convention.
