Trump says court officers were CRYING, apologizing during arraignment
25.04.2023Former President claimed court officers were crying and apologizing to him when they booked him last Tuesday during his .
Trump sat down with Channel’s Tucker Carlson for an interview, which will be aired Tuesday night.
While he bashed Manhattan Attorney General Alvin Bragg and other top prosecutors charged with looking into his conduct and businesses, he sent out a statement last week that called the cops and court employees ‘unbelievably nice.’
Asked about the experience by Carlson, Trump called the on-the-ground staff ‘incredible.’
‘When I went to the courthouse, which is also a prison in a sense, they signed me in and I’ll tell you people were crying — people that work there, professionally work there, that have no problems putting in murderers and ева элфи they see everybody,’ Trump said.
‘It’s tough, tough place, and they were crying.They were actually crying. They said «I’m sorry.»‘
Former President Donald Trump claimed court officers were crying and apologizing to him when they booked him last Tuesday during his Manhattan arraignment
Trump walks through the Manhattan Criminal Court in New York last week, after becoming the first former president to be indicted
‘So in one sense it was beautiful,’ Trump said. ‘Because they get it.’
The ex-president then joked that they never taught arraignments at Wharton, where he attended business school.
Trump’s day in court marked a first for an American president — becoming the first to be indicted after leaving office.
He was charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in relation to a $30,000 payoff to a doorman trying to sell information about a child that Trump allegedly fathered out of wedlock, $150,000 to former and a $130,000 payment to .
He pleaded not guilty at the New York Criminal Court, after the 16-page indictment was unsealed.
That night, Trump ranted at his Mar-a-Lago home about the key prosecutors and judges involved.
He said Bragg campaigned ‘on the fact that he would get President Trump.’
He also went after , who’s presiding over the New York hush-money case.
‘I have a Trump-hating judge, with a Trump-hating wife and family, whose daughter worked for Kamala Harris and now receives money from the Biden-Harris campaign and a lot of it,’ Trump charged from the podium at his Florida home and resort.
He also blasted — calling her a ‘local racist Democrat district attorney in Atlanta.’
Trump sits with his defense team during his day in court a week ago in Manhattan
Trump (left) sat down for an interview with Fox News presenter Tucker Carlson on Monday, which will air Tuesday night
Willis, who is black, is overseeing a case where Trump could be charged over his role in trying to overturn the 2020 election result in the state of Georgia.
Trump also called , who is also black, a ‘racist in reverse’ for pursuing fraud cases against his businesses.
The ex-president also labeled
Smith, who was appointed by President Joe Biden’s Attorney General Merrick Garland, is handling two federal, Trump-related probes — his handling of classified documents after leaving the White House and his role in the January 6 Capitol attack.
The next day, however, he released a statement cheering the professionalism of the police officers and court employees he interacted with.
‘The GREAT PATRIOTS inside and outside of the Courthouse on Tuesday were unbelievably nice, in fact, they couldn’t have been nicer,’ Trump said.’Court attendants, Police Officers, and others were all very professional, and represented New York City sooo well.’