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Criminal Trial Day One Triggers 31-Post Defensive Marathon From Courtroom to Campaign

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Trump spent the day managing the psychological fallout of his first criminal trial, flooding his feed with a mix of late-night rage posts and polished campaign messaging. The evening before court, he fired off a rapid burst of one-word slogans — "LAWFARE," "WITCH HUNT," "ELECTION INTERFERENCE" — well past midnight, then pivoted to a bizarre extended attack on Jimmy Kimmel first thing in the morning. By afternoon and evening, campaign staff took the wheel, packaging the day as a martyrdom-to-momentum story. The dominant mood was defiance through denial: not a single post acknowledged any substance of the 34 felony charges.

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The Crooked Joe Biden agenda taxes America to build up China. My agenda will tax China to BUILD UP AMERICA!

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Joe Biden claims to support American manufacturing, but in reality he's pushing the same pro-China globalist agenda that ripped the industrial heart out of our country. It ripped us apart. Biden and the globalists support raising taxes on American production. They support more crippling regulations killing American jobs. They support skyrocketing domestic energy costs, and they support massive anti-American multinational agreements that send our wealth and factories overseas. Very simply, the Biden agenda taxes America to build up China. China is the big beneficiary. We cannot let that happen. And just a couple of years ago it wasn't happening. China paid to the United States hundreds of billions of dollars and no other president got 10 cents, legitimately 10 cents from China. My agenda will tax China to build up America. The heart of my vision is a sweeping pro-American overhaul of our tax and trade policy to move from the Biden system that punishes domestic producers and rewards outsourcers to a system that rewards domestic production and taxes foreign companies and those who export American jobs. They will be rewarded and rewarded greatly, and our country will benefit. To achieve this goal, we will phase in a system of universal baseline tariffs on most foreign products. On top of this, higher tariffs will increase incrementally depending on how much individual foreign countries devalue their currency. They devalue their currency to take advantage of the United States, and they subsidize their industries or otherwise engage in trade cheating and abuse. And they do it now like never before, and we had it largely stopped, and it was going to be stopped completely within less than a year. As tariffs on foreign producers go up, taxes on American producers will go down and go down very substantially, and that means a lot of jobs coming in. Not only will this system end our gaping trade deficits, and they are massive right now, and bring back millions of American jobs, it will also bring trillions and trillions of dollars pouring into the United States Treasury from foreign countries and allow us to invest that money in American workers, American families, and American communities. This plan will be the linchpin of a new strategic national manufacturing initiative that builds in my historic success in ending NAFTA, which was a tremendous thing, a tremendous achievement. Nobody thought it could be done, and we did USMCA, US, Mexico, Canada, and it was an incredible thing. But we're also going to end other unfair trade deals, and we'll end them quickly. In addition, as a matter of both economic and national security, I will implement a bold series of reforms to completely eliminate dependence on China in all critical areas. We will revoke China's most favored nation trade status and adopt a four-year plan to phase out all Chinese imports of essential goods, everything from electronics to steel to pharmaceuticals. This will include strong protections to ensure China cannot circumvent restrictions by passing goods through conduit countries, countries that don't make a product, but all of a sudden they're selling a lot of product. It comes right through China, right out of China, and right into our country. We will also adopt new rules to stop US companies from pouring investments into China and to stop China from buying up America, allowing all of those investments that clearly serve American interests. We're not going to allow bad things to happen to our country anymore, and we will eliminate federal contracts for any company that outsources to China. Biden will never get the job done. He is weak on China because the corrupt Biden family has received millions and millions of dollars from entities tied to the Chinese Communist Party. Everybody knows that. They try and hide it, and the fake news doesn't want to talk about it. Biden's pro-China economic program puts America last, and it's killing our country. My cutting-edge trade agenda will revitalize our economy by once again putting America first. And by the way, we'll get along very well with China. And you know what the reason is? They'll respect us again like they did just two years ago. We will quickly become a manufacturing powerhouse like the world has never seen before. Thank you very much.

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Crooked Joe Biden’s policy is China First—My policy is very simple, AMERICA FIRST!!! https://www.DonaldJTrump.com

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-I believe now that a rising China is a positive development, not only for the people of China, but for the United States and the world as a whole. -Joe Biden's policy is China first. My policy is very simple -- America first.

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Join me this Saturday, April 20th, in Wilmington, North Carolina—at 7:00 PM Eastern! Tickets: https://event.donaldjtrump.com/events/president-donald-j-trump-to-hold-a-rally-in-wilmington-north-carolina

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Judge Jeanine: "Here's the issue: the case should never have been brought. The truth is that there are...criminals...in jail, on violent crimes, long before this indictment of Donald Trump, whose cases should've been prioritized...It's political—it's all political!”

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But here's the issue. The case should never have been brought. The truth is that there are people, criminals, defendants in jail on violent crimes long before this indictment was brought against Donald Trump, whose case should have been prioritized as opposed to their reaching out and pulling out the most recent case where the defendant is not charged with a violent crime who is not in jail and they're saying, "Let's try this first." Why? It's political. It's all political.

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WE’RE MAKING A BIG PLAY FOR NEW YORK! JOIN TEAM TRUMP TODAY AT: https://www.DonaldJTrump.com/JOIN

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>> We're making a big play for New York, other cities too, but this city, I love this city. And it's gone so bad in the last three years, four years, and we're gonna straighten New York out. So, running for president, we're putting a big hit in New York. We think we can win New York.

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TOGETHER—WE WILL MAKE AMERICA SAFE & GREAT AGAIN! https://www.DonaldJTrump.com

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-Violin ex-con attacking a hard-working store clerk here in New York City. The clerk fought back and stabbed his attacker to death. Radical DA Alvin Bragg, slapping him with a murder charge. -Don't do it, Bodega. -Bodega! -Bodega! -Crowds gather in upper Manhattan as former President Trump visits a Bodega. -This is the moment Mr. Trump arrived tonight. People lined up along 139th and Broadway as he made his way inside the Hamilton Heights Bodega to meet with Jose Alba. Alba is the Bodega worker who fatally stabbed a man in July of 2022 in a case of self-defense. -On Tuesday, he used a Harlem Bodega as a backdrop to slam Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg for being what he calls "soft on crimes that matter." -Without a doubt, very much supported here in Harlem.

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“When you think about Donald Trump as a candidate for office, and as a political athlete…I say often, he’s as gifted a political athlete as I’ve ever seen…”

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when you think about Donald Trump as a candidate for office and as a political athlete, I say often he's as gifted a political athlete as I've ever seen. I don't agree with a lot of his things, but you have to respect the business and understand how politics is that the art of politics is litigated. This move here, Dana, we had a conversation about this a day or so ago. Here he is in New York. He goes to a bodega. He was at, I think, at a gas station a day or so before. This is as good a campaigning as you can do. Now, whether they, some may argue or say that the crowd was scripted, whatever happened there, it looked good. This is the kind of theater you want when you're in a campaign. And he was able to highlight, in addition to that, an issue that is on the forefront of a lot of voters' minds, not just in New York, but everywhere, law and order and crime. I'll refrain from some of the conversation and analysis around DA Brack, but if you look at what, to the judge's point, this juxtaposition of Donald Trump there versus the trial, this is what's going to be talked about over the next day. So as a political move, as a political athlete, this was a very, very smart thing for the president to do. Now, I don't think it's going to necessarily have an impact on the trial itself, but on the campaign itself, there's no doubt this is one of the smarter things the president could be doing.

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“WE’RE SEEING IN REAL TIME—A LIVING MARTYR…”

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He is a master at the promo. He needs to have a book called The Art of the Promo. He gets in front of the mic and he just drops it. The crowd's chanting. You can't manufacture that. You didn't hand out scripts for that because if so, then we'd see it online right now. Everyone would have a thing of the... So what he's doing is he's... We're seeing in real time a living martyr because he's dead in the courtroom, but his trials is in the public and he's winning in public. - Can I ask you guys a question? Why do you... I'm gonna sit and listen to the facts. So you think the jury has already decided... So I'd differ with you there. - I just think the case in itself, first of all, it's a federal wires brag doing it anyways, but the other side of it is it's designed for him to lose when you look at... There's no one else who's getting charged with this. No one. It's crazy. The statute of limitations are out. It should have been a done deal. They found a way... Like I said, the one time... He said witch trial probably 50 times. This is the one time where it feels like a witch trial the regular non, I didn't ask the bar guy, but that might be true.

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“TRUMP FLIPS SCRIPT ON RADICAL DA’S CRIME RECORD”

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Donald Trump flipping the script on his criminal hush money trial in New York going from the court to a bodega. If that place looked familiar, well that's because you've seen it before. It's the infamous site where its previous owner Jose Alba stabbed a man to death in self-defense but was charged by a New York City DA named Alvin Bragg, who's very familiar to you now, but then finally under a lot of pressure Alvin Bragg dropped the case. The former president railing against Bragg's a crime record on tape. Watch your. They want law and order. They have a lot of crime, tremendous crime where their stores are being robbed. We have to straighten out new law. And that includes crime. And these guys have great people, great friends, but they have tremendous crimes. It's Alvin Bragg's fault. Alvin Bragg does nothing. He goes after guys like Trump who did nothing wrong. Violent criminals, murderers. They know there are hundreds of murderers all over the city. They know who they are. They don't pick them up. They go after Trump. Well Trump must have gotten under Alvin Bragg's skin. The Manhattan DA issuing a response defending his handling of the case and adding that his quote "top priority remains combating violent crime" and the office has worked hand-in-hand with the NYPD to drive down overall crime in Manhattan including double-digit decreases in homicides and shootings since he took office. That, however, still doesn't change the fact that Bragg has downgraded a staggering 60% of felony cases to lesser charges last year. Meanwhile, Trump got a very warm reception at that bodega. But the media, not a fan, one MSNBC analyst comparing the former president to a caged animal warning that he might lash out dangerously because of the trial. Essentially he's like a caged animal and and that's a dangerous situation. He's feeling very threatened. He's out of control and so we do expect him to lash out. Anybody who has covered him over the past decade can expect that. You got a kick out of that one. I did. Out of control. Do you want to ask a question? Yeah, go ahead. Okay. Out of control. I mean in their dreams he's out of control. This man is the epitome of grace under fire. I mean forget about the fact that he was spied on. He was impeached twice. They took a half a billion dollars from him. They've indicted him four times. They're looking to put him in jail. This guy's out campaigning as soon as court is out. And you know this guy Bragg, I gotta tell you, he is a make-believe prosecutor. This guy's job is to protect the criminal and forget about the victim. Alvin Bragg is the kind of guy who forgives those who rob people with weapons but then indicts people who defend themselves with weapons. This guy is a pathetic example of what's going on and he can talk about crime being down in New York. Alvin Bragg all he wants. He's a fool. First of all police aren't making arrests because there aren't enough of them. Secondly, people aren't reporting crimes because they know that nothing's going to happen. And the idea, and I can speak to this, the idea of downgrading 938 of the most serious felony charges and reducing felonies to misdemeanors in almost 1,000 cases, 60% redo. I mean this is sad. This is pathetic. But I do think that it was brilliant on the part of Donald Trump to go back to the bodega because this is a place where an ex-con, a career criminal, jumped over the counter of the owner of this bodega to stab him because the owner of the bodega wouldn't give his girlfriend a free bag of chips. And while the ex-con's girlfriend is stabbing the owner, he is cornered. He is being attacked and he's about to be stabbed and he defends himself in this bozo. Alvin Bragg says after a thorough investigation we dismissed, $250,000 bail in Rikers Island for three weeks, only because we went crazy, the media went crazy, the public went crazy, and the poor owner, he went back to the Dominican Republic. So, you know, Alvin Bragg is gonna say, you know, I'm a great DA because I'm gonna convict Trump. Well, if you don't, you're a fool. It's 90% Democrats in blue in this city.

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Crooked Joe Biden wants PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY to be protected perhaps more than any other living (barely!) individual because if it isn’t, and having absolutely nothing to do with me, he will surely be Indicted and Tried for many of his Dishonest, illegal, or Incompetent Actions (Afghanistan disaster, Southern Border catastrophe!). A President should not be placed in that position - MUST BE FREE TO MAKE DECISIONS, HOPEFULLY CORRECT ONES!

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“TRUMP GOES STRAIGHT FROM COURTROOM TO CAMPAIGN” https://www.DonaldJTrump.com

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Well, Donald Trump was in court yesterday and jury selection, they narrated it. Seven jurors were sworn in for this hush money trial. Eleven more are needed. But don't you think that's quick to get seven? Especially after the first day. Yeah, exactly, exactly. A tech worker, an English teacher, an oncology nurse, sales professional and software engineer and two lawyers. But look what Trump did. He left the courthouse and went up there to Harlem. In front of that bodega where the man who no longer works there, remember he was working there, Jose Alba. And a guy comes in and is trying to steal stuff from him. Tried to kill him. Tried to kill him and so Jose kills him. And Jose was charged with murder, went to Rikers. Those charges were dropped after everyone in New York and all of our Fox viewers were complaining. Well, they couldn't go back to work because he was getting hassled on a daily basis. Right, that was Alvin Bragg, right? Right, and we saw the video when this happened back in 2022. And so yesterday, Mr. Trump says he was invited by the Bodega Association to stop by. They say they've got a real problem there. But essentially, they're using a little campaign strategy. He is, he, the former president, is trying to turn the tables on the DA here in Manhattan who is prosecuting him in the Hush Money porn star trial. He's saying, look, Alvin Bragg came after me. It's a fake case. Why is he coming after me when he should be going after actual people who are breaking the law? Here's the former president. This is all politics. This is coming out of the White House. And you know, it makes me campaign locally, and that's okay. [CROSSTALK] We're doing better now than we've ever done. So I think it's having a reverse. You know what, all I want is fairness. And these people have to be treated better, the Bodega Association. Bodega's, because every week they're being robbed two, three times. It's crazy. It's crazy. And you know what, the police can do it. They can stop it. But they have to be allowed to do their job. >> Four more years, four more years, four more years. >> This is Harlem, New York. >> Yeah, I didn't do their DNA, but that does not look like a, that looks like a very diverse crowd. >> It is, because that's Harlem. And you know, Joe Biden has a fatal flaw here. He keeps saying, you know, he's a billionaire. You can talk about where he's from all day, but it's about what candidates represent and who they represent. And when you see diverse people out there saying four more years, Harlem has been broken. Do you think those businesses want more taxes? Do you think they're comfortable with the crime happening in this city? As Alvin Bragg, the only time you see his face is when he's going after Donald Trump. There is no sympathy for the victims there. You don't hear anything about, from the current president, about taking the housing from the seniors in Harlem and putting the legals in there. You think Donald Trump is gonna support that? >> You know, just to look at the difference in Joe Biden and Donald Trump, look, he's like chanting with them and holding up his fist, going around shaking hands, taking pictures with these individuals. Joe Biden just- >> He talked to the press. He actually answered their questions, and you know what, I'm pretty sure those questions were on pre-screen. There were no cards. And he doesn't embrace, he knows he's in the middle of a gag order. He knows he could easily say, guys, I gotta get myself in trouble here. But he goes, no, no, I'll take it. >> And number two is what I think is important, is that Donald Trump can go to other places. Like, how about the subway station where Danny Penny was forced to just bring into action and save those people? >> He might. You think every day after court, he's gonna choose a different location in New York? >> Right, and today is an off day because they are making progress. And Brian, your question about whether or not, you know, why they seated so many jurors yesterday. Because the day before, the judge said, look, if we don't pick up the pace on this, we're not gonna get Wednesdays off. So suddenly both sides agreed on those seven people. But they still need like five more and a bunch of- >> We want our time off. >> He wants one. The judge wants Wednesday off. >> Yeah. >> They all want Wednesday off. >> But I think it cannot be lost on us, that the President of the United States, former President of the United States, is being forced to campaign in this region alone. Because this judge cannot wait to put the trial at a different day. I think when the former president says that his election interferes, I think there's some credibility there, and there's a point there. Why are they staging all these trials to where he cannot campaign in another state when Joe Biden gets to be in Pennsylvania? >> Yeah, and maybe this is the only one, it's okay. But if you have two more trials- >> Right, yeah. >> Where you gotta sit there in the audience- >> The judge said he has to stay in New York, right? >> That's what he is. >> At night, after a party could be- >> In the court. >> In the court. >> He could travel around. >> He could travel in new rallies all over the country at night. >> Exactly. >> Well, what's it gonna do today? >> Lee Seldin says New York's in play. >> That's the question. >> Lee Seldin goes, Donald Trump is gonna put New York in play. >> If he keeps going to these different spots that have been forgotten, you don't see Joe Biden in Harlem campaigning- >> He doesn't go to New York, he wouldn't even talk to the mayor. >> Exactly. >> Well, keep in mind, the year that Jose Alba was assaulted by that guy, the guy tried to kill him, that was when Republicans ran on, look at the crime. It's rampant in the streets. And Republicans in certain localities did a pretty good job capitalizing on that. >> One of the jurors that was excused, she said inside the courtroom, the jurors were pretty even for Manhattan, which is surprising. >> One of the things that she said, and I think it's important to note, is that some of the people were saying that they watch Fox. Just because they say they watch Fox doesn't mean that they're Republican. We have more Democrats that watch our network more than any other- >> But that same person said they watch MSNBC and they read the New York Times. >> So one watches, I so want to listen to The Breakfast Club with Charmin and the God. The other works at Disney, that could be dicey. And the other one reads the Daily News. The Daily News is the most anti-Trump newspaper in the country and it's great competition. >> Look at this, okay, Daily News here. They get their news from Google and TikTok. This one- >> Disney. >> Let's see, there was another one, New York Times. Your list is different than mine, I had a longer list. >> It's interesting because what Donald Trump said yesterday is he's just looking for jurors who will be fair. Fair. You can watch anything you want. That's what you want, yeah. Just want fairness.

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MAKE NEW YORK SAFE AGAIN!

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Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump got sworn by his supporters, some supporters of his, as he campaigned at a New York City bodega yesterday. That was the same bodega where worker Jose Alba stabbed an ex-con in self-defense, only to be hit with a murder charge that stood for three weeks until it was dropped. Brooke Singman has more on that episode. Brooke? Yes, Dave. After spending the day in court, the former president made a little visit to the Manhattan bodega. Trump says he was invited by the bodega association to discuss rising crime in New York City and how that crime puts the owners and workers in danger. And when he got there, he was met by a large crowd of supporters chanting Trump and four more years. They even broke into song at one point, singing the national anthem. People have to be treated better. The bodega association, bodegas, because every week they're being robbed two, three times. It's crazy. It's crazy. And you know what? The police can do it. They can stop it, but they have to be allowed to do that. At that same bodega in 2022, Jose Alba was attacked by a man while he was working behind the counter. Alba grabbed a knife and stabbed and killed that man in self-defense in Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg initially charged Alba with murder before it was later dropped amid public pressure. Alba now lives in the Dominican Republic. But in 2024, there have been more than 4,000 robberies in the Big Apple, which is up 4.3% from last year. There have also been over 17,000 retail thefts, an increase of almost 7% from 2023. The former president has been confined to the courtroom in New York for his trial this weekend. He's required to attend every day going forward. Trump says his opponents and Democrats want to keep him off the campaign trail, but he told his supporters yesterday that he thinks it will have the "reverse effect." The second day of the trial ended with seven jurors being seated. The trial has been adjourned until tomorrow at 9 30 a.m. Lawrence. I just get a kick of the former president coming to Harlem. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. All right. Thanks, Brooke.

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“THE SYSTEM IS ON TRIAL”

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>> And it's time for the hot topic of the hour while making a campaign stop at a Harlem Bodega yesterday. Former President Trump said his so-called hush money case is having the, quote, reverse effect. Watch. >> This is all politics, this is coming out of the White House and it makes me campaign locally and that's okay. I think we're doing better, Brian. We're doing better now than we've ever done. So I think it's having a reversal. You know what? All I want is fairness. >> Trump breaking in more than a million dollars in campaign fundraising after the first day of the criminal trial, the trial resuming tomorrow or the proceedings of the trial resuming tomorrow. They're still in jury selection, seven of the 18 jurors have been selected now. Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg filing a motion, meanwhile, to hold Trump in contempt of court. Claiming that Trump violated his gag order after posting about witnesses in the trial on social media. Bragg urging Judge Murchand to warn Trump future violations of the gag order can be punishable with up to 30 days of jail time. Ashley, good morning. Your reaction. >> Good morning, yeah. I've always thought from the beginning that all of these cases are really helping Trump and obviously if he really did raise the million dollars, which I believe him, it's continuing to help him. And 60% of Americans do not believe in our judicial system and one in three don't even understand why he is in trial state. I mean, I do this for a living, politics for a living, and I can't keep all the trial states. So I think this is straight. I think this is 100% helping him. >> You know, I think when you look at this gag order, it's really hard to see a candidate for president following a gag order. I mean, you've got President Joe Biden traveling across the country, he was in the swing state of Pennsylvania yesterday, talking about everything he wants to talk about, abortion, Trump, whatever he wants to talk about. And if Trump says anything, he's violating a gag order. They're running for president. ESPN's Stephen A. Smith slammed Trump's so called money hush money trial yesterday on his YouTube show. Here's what he said, watch. >> To my liberal friends out there, all you're doing is showing that you're scared you can't beat him on the issues and the merits. That's why he keeps saying, it's a political campaign against me, tens of millions of people see what extent the other side is willing to go through just to keep him out of office because they can't beat him on their own merits. Everything you do shows me you can't beat him. It's a damn shame. >> And that's what Trump keeps saying, a new AP NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll finds that just 35% of adults think that Trump actually did something illegal in this case. 31% of Americans believe Trump's actions were unethical, but not illegal. Another 14% said Trump did nothing wrong. Lee Carter, your reaction. >> So I think this whole thing is really fascinating as we're looking at, I agree with you completely this benefits Donald Trump because what's on trial right now is not just Donald Trump, the system is what's on trial. People believe the system is rigged to favor a few, not the many. When people hear things like Katie Couric talking about how Republicans must be brain dead if they're gonna support Donald Trump. When you see the way people are reacting here, you think this just is unfair. You think that this isn't about Donald Trump, you think about this as something much greater. The fact that there's so much pile on here makes people actually fight back even more. When you look at the polling, what people want is they want somebody who's gonna stand up for the issues. Two-thirds of Americans are looking for a fighter who's gonna fight back on this system. That's exactly what Donald Trump is doing from the courthouses that he's fighting in and people are, it's resonating and everyone on the left is really surprised that this is happening. If you're a Trump supporter, you see it and you're like, obviously, this is going to create more and more support for Donald Trump. >> Yeah, how do you see that? >> Well, Maria, trying to have a dispassionate conversation about the Trump trial with the Democrat is like trying to have a logical conversation with an alcoholic. It's not possible. They just can't get past the emotion. They can't get to the central issues. It's just amazing to me that we're even having the conversation. It's amazing this even came to trial and that doesn't just come from me. Think of all the legal experts you've had on your show, Maria, who've said there's just no basis for what's happening here. And yet if he gets convicted, they're talking about jail time, multiple jail time. It's just multiple years. >> I will backfire. >> And it's going to continue to divide the country. I mean, I don't know how the country moves forward after trials like this.

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I thought STRIKES were supposed to be “unlimited” when we were picking our jury? I was then told we only had 10, not nearly enough when we were purposely given the 2nd Worst Venue in the Country. Don’t worry, we have the First Worst also, as the Witch Hunt continues! ELECTION INTERFERENCE!

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Stupid Jimmy Kimmel, who still hasn’t recovered from his horrendous performance and big ratings drop as Host of The Academy Awards, especially when he showed he suffered from TDS, commonly known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, to the entire World by reading on air my TRUTH about how bad a job he was doing that night, right before he stumbled through announcing the biggest award of all, “Picture of the Year.” It was a CLASSIC CHOKE, one of the biggest ever in show business, and to top it off, he forgot to say the famous and mandatory line, “AND THE WINNER IS.” Instead he stammered around as he opened the envelope. Supposedly his wife, and even management, begged him not to do it, “DON’T READ HIS TRUTH, JIMMY, PLEASE DON’T DO THIS,” they said. He was made to look like a FOOL, which he is, and at the same time go down in Television History as the WORST HOST EVER OF THE ONCE VAUNTED ACADEMY AWARDS!

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LAWFARE! https://www.DonaldJTrump.com

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the case is obviously a corruption of the law, lawfare. And you know who noticed? President Trump. President Trump re-truthed it, and I think that's great. So, here we are. One of the most popular people in American history is locked up in court for the next six to eight weeks. Didn't the current president say he would do everything he could to bring this country together? This is one of the most divisive things that could ever happen to a country. What about this solemn promise? - Today, on this January day, my whole soul is in this, bringing America together, uniting our people, uniting our nation. - Big words, huh? What did he say? What does that mean? Maybe he has no soul. His whole soul was in it. He hasn't lifted a finger to unite this country. It really does. I wonder, does this man have a soul? Now, if he really cared about democracy and all these judges and prosecutors, maybe they'd make an appointment to see Chuck Schumer. This is a man who's violated federal law, and he did it with a million witnesses. - I wanna tell you, Gorsuch. I wanna tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. (audience cheering) You won't know what hit you. - That's threatening. That's against the law. And of course, some maniac showed up at Judge Kavanaugh's house with a bag full of guns, but he's a Democrat. He gets it immediately. It's wrong. Everybody knows it. Even they know it. What's gonna happen? I don't know, but I sense it's gonna be glorious. I'll be right back. (dramatic music)

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MAKE NEW YORK SAFE AGAIN!

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Oh, anybody remember this from two years ago in New York City the man in the green shirt that's Jose Alba and he's about to be attacked by the man in the white shirt. Alba works at the store the other guy well is irate for a couple of different reasons and he proceeds to attack Mr. Alba and against really bad Mr. Alba decides to defend himself with a knife just about everybody who's seen this thinks that Jose Alba that this was justified justified self-defense guess who charged him guess who threw him in jail Alvin Bragg the same man who was prosecuting and persecuting Donald Trump well this was a major moment for New York and actually for the country and Donald Trump went to the scene today after his time in court he went up to that bodega in upper Manhattan met with the people talked with them shook hands he was greeted in that primarily black and Latino neighborhood as a hero really is something you know talk about making lemonade out of lemons Donald Trump is addressing a very important issue and maybe while he's here in New York he can flip New York right you see because he's gonna be able to campaign here every day and there is there's a hunger for law and order in this city Donald Trump spoke just a little while ago. This is a very exciting time for me because the bodegas the association invited me and I respect them and they respect me they want law and order they have a lot of crime tremendous crime where their stores are being robbed and as you know we're going to give New York a very good shot for the presidency we think we should be able to do it a lot of things have changed Lee Zelda did a beautiful job he ran he lost by a little bit and these guys are great people great friends but they have tremendous crime so we get a straight there. Black and Latino hundreds of them yelling out four more years for Donald Trump you know this whole indictment could blow up in their face all over again New York State has not gone Republican I think since 1984 when Ronald Reagan won it then he's right there's something happening here in New York City upstate that's a that's that's Trump country you know a while back in December Cara Castro Nova who was a reporter here at the time went up to the Bronx went out to the neighborhood and talked to people a lot of people of color and said what are you thinking this is a Democrat stronghold you're going for Joe Biden right uh-uh. I'm vote for Trump if he runs because I feel like it was much better when he was here financially for everybody not just me for everybody I'm definitely going for Donald Trump he made sure we had money in our pockets he was for the people he made sure we had what we needed I felt like everything will go back to how it was I mean ever since he's out of office everything's declined when Trump was president my life was good economical wise I was doing so much better they're saying it's gonna be Biden Trump so who are you going for I have to go for Trump all right it's huge and we've never seen anything like this in a very very long time if ever I love it don't you all right

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THANK YOU, HARLEM! #MAGA

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- All right, welcome to Rob Schmidt tonight. We start with breaking news. You've been watching the last couple minutes, you just saw it. Former President Trump, actually his motorcade, just leaving a bodega in Harlem tonight here at seven o'clock here on the East Coast. We had former President Trump in Harlem tonight with a huge crowd in this neighborhood. All of Broadway, around 139th Street, blocked off a huge crowd screaming four more years, screaming Trump's name in Harlem, New York. This is a place Republicans never, ever, ever go. And what a scene this was. We can pull up some video if we have it, just to show you kind of the moment and what it all looked like. Here he was speaking to some of the press. This is after his second day in court for this ridiculous trial that he's facing in New York. Trump showcasing the rot of New York City that Alvin Bragg has been ignoring while working to destroy Joe Biden's 2024 political opponent. Trump arrived at the Harlem bodega where Jose Alba, you remember this story, where Jose Alba stabbed a violent customer in self-defense, only to find himself facing murder charges brought on by Alvin Bragg, who is effectively a criminal advocate in this city. You can see right there some of the people that came out to see the former president and cheer him on. That's Harlem, that's what Harlem looks like. Those are the residents, very black, very Hispanic. Bragg eventually dropped the charges against Jose Alba after a fierce public outcry, but not before the 51-year-old spent a very long weekend on Rikers Island, a very dangerous jail in New York. He was not able to post the $250,000 bail for a couple of days. This was quite a moment here. We had a chance to hear from the former president. He talked about his case, the Alvin Bragg case, as he went around speaking to a number of people. He went inside of the bodega. He spoke to a number of people inside. He came outside, spoke to the media. This is what he said about the Bragg case against him. -This is all politics. This is coming out of the White House, and, you know, it makes me campaign locally, and that's okay. We're doing better now than we've ever done, so I think it's having a reversal. All I want is fairness, and these people have to be treated better, the bodega association, bodegas, because every week, they're being robbed two, three times. It's crazy. It's Alvin Bragg's fault. Alvin Bragg does nothing. He goes after guys like Trump. -So, there you go. I mean, let's pull up just some more of that video just to show this moment, and again, just to reemphasize how crazy it is to see a Republican running for president going up into Harlem. I mean, this is a Democrat stronghold, if there ever was a Democrat stronghold. Manhattan is 90% Biden voting. Harlem is probably beyond that when you go district by district, so this was a moment, and what you're seeing right here is a political shift in this country. You're seeing the African-American vote leaving the Democrat party, realizing they brought them nothing for the last 50 years, moving on to try something new, just like Trump said in 2016. What the hell do you have to lose? Where have you gotten with Democrats in charge? You've gotten nowhere. He's not afraid to go to Harlem. He's not afraid to take chances. This is why he's a political icon.

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“DEMOCRAT CRIME CRISIS” https://www.DonaldJTrump.com

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The system continues to fail us. We are not safe anymore. Albin Bragg says it is time to keep his campaign promise of criminal justice reform. No neighborhood is safe in New York City right now. Random attack on a four-year-old boy in broad daylight in the heart of the city. The suspect, a man who has been arrested at least 40 times before. With just days on the job, Manhattan District Attorney Albin Bragg is changing how some crimes will be prosecuted. He says he'll stop seeking prison sentences for some criminal charges and will downgrade some felony charges. A brutal attack on a woman walking down the sidewalk knocked to the ground with a single punch. Her attacker was arrested 40 times before. The last five hours, we've had three shooting incidents in the northern part of Manhattan. In less than 42 hours in the city over the weekend, five men were fatally shot or stabbed across three boroughs. It was a violent holiday weekend around the city, leaving five people dead. New NYPD data shows felony transit crimes are on the rise. Many subway murders have been recorded in the past two weeks alone. A 15-year-old is the latest fatal victim in the New York City subway system. Police say the stabbing was unprovoked and the victim was ambushed by an unknown suspect while exiting a northbound four train.

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LAWFARE! https://www.DonaldJTrump.com

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- New York, it's going to hell under Democrats. - Police need your help. - New video this morning shows a wild shoot-out. - Robberies, a poor suspect, 20 robberies. - Major felonies, way up. - Home invasions, gang retaliation, killings, and innocent lives caught in the crossfire. - And last year, an unprecedented rise in violence against police. - Horrific attack. - They brutally attacked. - A New York City police officer. - Wanna know why our cops are getting assaulted? - There's no consequences. - Nine shootings, 11 victims, two dead. - The water-corrupt New York Democrats focused on Trump. - We are filing a lawsuit against Donald Trump. - Earlier this afternoon, Donald Trump was arraigned on 34 felony counts. - Political persecution at the highest level. - A Democrat prosecutor elected on a Get Trump platform. - They've quite frankly given up on trying to beat him at the polls, either gonna steal it or stop it by lawfare. - They are relying on lawfare to try to win this election. - New York has become a legal banana republic. - They are so determined to get Donald Trump. - The legal system is being weaponized against someone who clearly is a political enemy. - This isn't prosecution, it's persecution. - This is election interference.

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The whole world is watching this New York legal system. This is really ELECTION INTERFERENCE—It all comes out of Washington because they are losing badly in the polls! You know what we're going to be doing, right? We're going to be SAVING AMERICA!!! https://www.DonaldJTrump.com

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The laws are right, the whole world is watching this New York legal system. This is all a election, really election interference at the highest level. It all comes out of Washington because they're losing badly, you know they're losing very badly, you do know that. They're losing badly in the polls. I think they're gonna see some numbers coming out now, even higher. People don't like the persecution, they don't like what's going on, they don't like these fake prosecutors. Deranged Jack Smith, the whole group of them. And I think you're gonna see some big changes being made. You know what we're going to be doing, right? We're gonna be saving America. Our country is under siege.

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LAURA INGRAHAM: “FREE SPEECH FOR THEM, NOT YOU!”

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MSNBC, CNN, they're always reminding everyone that they're only going to take a Trump event if the news of the day requires it. Let me just tell our viewers so I don't startle them what we are doing. We have made a decision on this first day that if Donald Trump comes out and starts talking, we might want to listen to him for a little bit. We're going to do something. We're going to do it together. I promise we're going to come out of this if he starts lying or threatening people. Researchers are urging that Biden not debate Trump at all, as we just said with that quote from The Atlantic magazine, especially bad because they're just essentially saying that he's subhuman, he's evil, and he doesn't deserve to be treated like a real candidate. Talk about election interference. Now freedom of speech still exists for the left, but not so much for the rest of you. In fact, I think most sensible people when you talk to them about these issues, if they have a traditional set of beliefs or slightly traditional set of beliefs even, they just get used to self-censoring. They watch what they say all the time. It's the only way to avoid having their kids shunned at school or maybe even losing their jobs. Look at what happened to that poor senior editor at the taxpayer-supported NPR. After blowing the whistle on the pro-Democrat bias among what is overwhelmingly a liberal executive workforce staff there, his bosses suspended him. How's that for all things considered? Now, we're not dealing with the old liberals anymore. Get used to this. They used to relish debate. They were proud to be free speech absolutists. Today, the landscape is filled with landmines, and those landmines are planted by ruthless anti-free speech radicals. Say the wrong thing, associate with the wrong people, be in the wrong place, and yeah, they want you blown up. It's time to expose them as the sniveling cowards and wannabe tyrants that they are. It is time for all of us, each and every one of us, to be fearless, and that's the angle.

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POLITICAL WITCH HUNT! https://www.DonaldJTrump.com

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But we begin in Pennsylvania, where Joe Biden, your president, he spent the day on the campaign trail talking to voters in a critical, crucial battleground state. We are just 202 days away until an inflection point for this country, probably the most pivotal election in our lifetime. Every campaign stop is crucial. Donald Trump was not able to campaign today at all. Why? He was stuck in a dreary New York City courtroom and will be stuck in that very same courtroom almost every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday for the foreseeable future, likely well over a month. Donald Trump was told that he will go straight to jail and not collect $200 if he's not in court every single day. And Joe Biden has the swing state playing field all to himself with only 202 days until election day. And the media mob, they are literally, well, elated. One fake new CNN host celebrating with a banner that read, quote, Biden hits the trail while Trump sits in court. No wonder so few people watch fake new CNN. And they're at the conspiracy theory channel, MSDNC. They are working extra, extra hard this week. They're fairy tales, of course, about Russia, Russia. Russia never came true, but they will never miss an opportunity every second minute hour, every day, every week, every month, every year to bash Donald Trump. And they are not alone. Take a look. -Donald Trump is in the courthouse right now. I mean, history has begun. -And the Biden campaign says that while Trump is in court, Biden is, quote, running the country. -The judge is in a tough spot here. No judge wants to be that, you know, person that is the one to throw former President Trump in jail for criminal contempt. -What do Democrats do? How do his opponents try to utilize this time? -Well, Joe, the split screen will be Donald Trump in a courtroom, Joe Biden on a campaign trail. So I think that's a very important juxtaposition. -Why is it that it's only coming to trial now? It turns out that is kind of a funny story, funny in a bad way. -Oh, this is a legal nerd Super Bowl, right? Like, I'm kind of excited about this. -That's the part I do. -That's exciting to someone like me. -They're downright kitty, make no mistake. This is no ordinary trial. This is a taxpayer-funded, media-promoted, political smear campaign against Donald Trump and miraculously and perfectly timed just for the presidential election. Now, the prosecutor Alvin Bragg, he hates Donald Trump. He ran on a hate-Trump campaign. He hates him for political reasons. The judge, Juan Merchon, is his name. He's a Democrat. Guess who he donated to in 2020? Joe Biden, and the jury pool is comprised of Americans living in deep blue New York City. Only 12% of the electorate there voted for Trump. The alleged crime, it's hard to describe. They haven't really told us yet. It is a misdemeanor document-label allegation that dates back eight years. By the way, just for the record, well past the statute of limitations that Alvin Bragg mysteriously brought back to life by turning it into a felony on federal election law, but none of that really matters, does it? This is not about justice. It's not about keeping Americans safe. You really think this is a threat to any American? In New York City, let's see, you have violent criminals, you have gang members, you have drug dealers, you have sex offenders, you have cops being beaten up by the criminals, and little old ladies going to church getting the crap beat out of them, and they escape Alvin Bragg's very lax prosecution every single day. But with Donald Trump, well Bragg who reduced 60% of all felonies to misdemeanors, well he twisted the law into a pretzel, bending over backwards, spending millions of your dollars to bring a case that frankly never should have been brought. For Democrats, the mob and the media, it is worth every penny, even sacrificing the rule of law and our great constitutional republic. It removes Donald Trump from the campaign trail at the height of an election. The trial also gives the left yet another opportunity to trash Donald Trump in public.

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Stephen Miller speaking the TRUTH!

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Donald Trump has an encyclopedic memory of his speeches, of the agenda, of the policy plan, of what the mission is for whatever we're talking about and whatever we were doing on a given day in the West Wing. That's how he was able to give a speech and then take an issue and dissect it with the 15 or 20 minute specific drill down on that issue, that subject, that topic, that story, that anecdote. Let me also just say, since we're addressing the subject of style, the most stylish president and first lady in our lifetimes are Donald Trump and Melania Trump. Donald Trump's a style icon. He changed American fashion in "The Apprentice." People spent the next 10 years trying to dress like Donald Trump. So if anybody deserves a puff piece on their sense of style, it's Donald Trump and the first lady. Joe Biden, to the point that Mike Huckabee made so well, looks like a walking corpse. The only style article that should be written about Joe Biden is how you've mastered the art of looking embalmed. Because that is what Joe Biden looks like every single day when they drug him up, he gets out of bed and goes about his schedule.

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Who will explain for me, to my wonderful son, Barron, who is a GREAT Student at a fantastic School, that his Dad will likely not be allowed to attend his Graduation Ceremony, something that we have been talking about for years, because a seriously Conflicted and Corrupt New York State Judge wants me in Criminal Court on a bogus “Biden Case” which, according to virtually all Legal Scholars and Pundits, has no merit, and should NEVER have been brought. This Fake Case is solely meant to attack Crooked Joe Biden’s Political Opponent, ME, who is seriously leading him in the Polls, for purposes of Election Interference. The Judge, Juan Merchan, is preventing me from proudly attending my son’s Graduation. Seems very unfair, doesn’t it? But this whole event is unfair. Every one of the many Fake Cases that are perpetuated by the White House in order to help the Worst President in History, by far, get Re-Elected, are UNJUST SCAMS. We won’t let that happen, but we will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

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The judge meanwhile doesn't seem to understand the concept of a fair trial. He has already threatened Donald Trump with jail if he fails to appear at any point during this trial. He is even at this point hesitant to let Trump attend his son's high school graduation.

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ELECTION INTERFERENCE!!!https://www.DonaldJTrump.com

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So Trump arrived at the courtroom earlier this morning and said this before he went inside. This is all coming from the white house because the guy can't put two sentences together. The judge today yelled at Trump for mumbling audibly during jury selection and told him to knock it off. District Attorney Alvin Bragg begged the judge to hold Trump in contempt and asked him to fine him three grand for violating his gag order. Trump had posted that the trial was corrupt. Oops, can't do that. And for the second day in a row, reporters caught Trump dozing off. Wake me up when I'm acquitted. Front page of multiple news outlets today coming out of this that Trump appeared to fall asleep on the first day of his trial. Imagine committing so many crimes, you get bored at your own trial. The optics of all this and the sustained eye resting that apparently happened in the courtroom. I mean, I do feel like if you if you call your opponent Sleepy Joe, you have one job. For the rest of the campaign, this little gem, Trump appears to be sleeping. His head keeps dropping down and his mouth goes slack. After Trump woke up and found out who the seven jurors were and PR listening, D.I. lawyers, he went uptown to Harlem to visit a famous bodega. This was the place where Alvin Bragg charged the owner with murder just for merely defending himself during a robbery. This is all politics. This is coming out of the White House, and you know, it makes me campaign locally. I don't think we're doing better. We're doing better now than we've ever done, so I think it's having a reversal. You know what, all I want is fairness and these people have to be treated better. The bodega Association bodegas because every week they're being robbed two, three times. It's crazy. It's crazy. And you know what? The police can do it. They can stop it, but they have to be allowed to do this. We're making a big play for New York, other cities too, but this city, I love this city and it's gone so bad in the last three years, four years, and we're going to straight New York out. Wow, they're chanting Trump in Harlem. Let that sink in. Meanwhile, President Biden went to Scranton, his so-called hometown, to spew hoaxes because he thinks you're too stupid to read. He learned that paying taxes was something people who work for a living did, not him. He learned to tell them people you're fired was something to laugh about. Listen to what he says. He says, quote, "I'll be dictator on day one," quote, "I am your retribution." He promises, quote, "a bloodbath." Suckers and losers, he said it. Who the hell does he think he is?

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“FOUR MORE YEARS!” MAGA!!!https://www.DonaldJTrump.com

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U.S.A! U.S.A! [cheering] [cheering] [cheering] Hi everybody. Nice to see you. Nice to see you back here. Are you guys everything good? Four more years! Four more years! Four more years! Four more years! Four more years! Four more years!

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That includes crime and these guys have great people, great friends, but they have tremendous crime so we'll get us straight there.

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