Trumpism is maybe better understood as a pride movement for bad people than as a political movement
Imagine youre a piece of shit, living with resentment for everyone treating you as such
Then one of you emerges, rises to take the WH. Would you care about policy? Hypocrisy?
— Giacomo Volpe ?????? (@_giacomo_volpe_) May 13, 2024
Donald Trump's GOP allies show up in force as Michael Cohen takes the stand in hush money trial https://t.co/1Q2oJ5tyKn
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 14, 2024
With Donald Trump barred from publicly attacking the key witness in his hush money trial, his campaign brought to court a phalanx of Republican elected officials to speak for him.
“The thing that the president is prevented from saying, which is a disgrace, is that every single person involved in this prosecution is practically a Democratic political operative,” U.S. Sen. JD Vance of Ohio said outside the courthouse Monday during a morning break…
Bringing allies to court allowed Trump’s campaign to press his message without violating the gag order. It also gave those allies a high-profile platform to demonstrate loyalty to their party’s presumptive nominee and perhaps audition for higher office.
According to Trump’s campaign, all of his courthouse guests Monday volunteered to appear to support the former president and were not explicitly invited by people affiliated with the campaign. But U.S. Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, who was at court with Trump last week, said Monday that he had been invited by Susie Wiles, a senior adviser to Trump’s campaign and also a longtime Florida GOP operative who advised Scott’s 2010 gubernatorial bid…
Vance, widely seen as a contender to be Trump’s vice presidential pick, was part of a group that arrived at court with Trump and stood behind him as he addressed reporters before heading into the courtroom. It was the biggest single showing of the allies joining Trump in court for the hush money trial since it began last month.
Others in Monday’s group included Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, U.S. Rep. Nicole Malliotakis of New York, and a pair of attorneys general, Steve Marshall of Alabama and Brenna Bird of Iowa. Former GOP rival Vivek Ramaswamy, who shuttered his campaign earlier this year but is considered a likely part of a new Trump administration, planned to come to court on Tuesday, according to a spokesman for the entrepreneur…
Outside court with Vance, Tuberville on Monday questioned the citizenship of the jurors, suggesting there were “supposedly American citizens in that courtroom,” and portrayed Bragg as a publicity-seeker.
He described Trump as “going through mental anguish in a courtroom. That’s very depressing.” …
Tuesday, it was ‘Leader’ Johnson’s turn atop the klown car:
like a coward, Johnson refuses to take questions pic.twitter.com/3OCafGNd5y
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 14, 2024
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