Of course it was staged and scripted, if he has so many supporters why are they not out front of the court house?Why the MAGA crowd is so thin outside Trump’s New York trial
It was a circus, but an unusually small one.
NEW YORK CITY — Beneath billowing, giant “Trump or Death” and “Trump 2024” flags, a few dozen supporters of Donald Trump gathered in a park across the street from the opening of his hush money trial.
They were there to witness history: The first criminal trial of a former American president, now his party’s nominee.
In the past, Trump has always been able to count on his supporters turning out en masse, from his signature rallies to the riot at the Capitol. But on Monday, at a pivotal moment for the MAGA movement and Trump’s campaign, the faithful were uncharacteristically quiet.
Even among supporters so loyal they were drawn to an event publicized as a “rally for President Trump” organized by the New York Young Republican Club, the endless litany of Trump’s legal proceedings seemed to be wearing on them. More than two hours after the rally was scheduled to begin, demonstrators were still heavily outnumbered by hundreds of members of the news media, including from as far away as Germany.
It’s 9 a.m. on a Monday in New York City, and you’re asking Republicans to show up, mostly people who generally work,” said Vish Burra, the executive secretary of the club and a former aide to disgraced former Rep. George Santos of New York.
Burra maintained the rally was larger than expected because “of how quickly we announced it — basically over the weekend.” But the trial — and expected protests — had been looming over the campaign for weeks. And it is not as though the MAGA faithful who did turn out were unaware of the stakes, or their own sense of duty to represent the former president in the first of the four criminal investigations he faces.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/15/trump-trial-supporters-maga-new-york-00152339
