After the jury deliberations ended that day, Trump spoke angrily and incoherently outside the court.
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Trump said:
This is Biden and the witch hunt, this is weaponization. So it appears that there are a lot of witnesses, a lot of people that they could have called, but now they’re not calling them, apparently because they were very bad witnesses to them. But due to the gag order, check out this list. I won’t reveal specific names, but you have a lot of big players, very big players, who can solve their problems or actually give us a win. We have achieved victory. We, if we had a fair judge, this case would have been over a long time ago, but a lot of the key witnesses were not called, look at your list, look at the players, you know who I’m talking about. You can take five or six. Why didn’t they call witnesses? They didn’t call them because they would be on our side.
It’s a disgrace, especially a witness who is now suffering severely because of the viciousness of these thugs, vicious people, what they did to that man, you know who I’m talking about, they didn’t don’t subpoena He serves as a witness. They didn’t call anyone as a witness, and they could have called all these people to resolve the issue. Another thing is that no one knows what crime was committed there. No crime. No one knows what the crime is. The district attorney did not disclose the specific crimes. I don’t know what the crime is and that’s the problem. This is a shame. This matter should be ended immediately. The judge should put an end to this and save his reputation.
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Trump was angry that prosecutors would not subpoena Weisselberg to testify because Trump paid him to not cooperate. “They could have said they are not subpoenaing them now, but they clearly are not subpoenaing them because they would be very bad,” Trump said. witnesses” them. ” pic.twitter.com/IGctY8Kfv0
— Sarah Rhys-Jones (@PoliticusSarah) May 29, 2024
Trump is talking about Allen Weisselberg, whom he is paying a $2 million severance package on the condition that he never cooperates with authorities. Trump essentially seized on and killed the Allen Weisselberg story.
Of course, Trump wants the people he paid to testify. By bribing witnesses, Donald Trump can manipulate the trial and win.
Trump’s modus operandi has always been to deceive or manipulate things so that he wins. Trump can’t manipulate the trial, so he’s angry, which frankly makes no sense, because he finally has something he can’t buy or control that could hold him accountable.
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