Trump Arraignment: Political Pageantry Burnishes the Trump Brand
But how many Trump supporters were actually outside the courthouse?
Just before 1:30 p.m., EST, CBS News reported that only “about a dozen” of the catastrophic ex-prez’s supporters were outside his Doral golf resort in Florida. It was just a few minutes before his motorcade was set to leave for his arraignment.
The question on everyone’s mind was how many supporters would there be outside the federal courthouse in Miami? Of course when Trump faced state charges in New York in April, his supporters made a disappointing showing but that was New York. It’s easier to find a leprechaun than a Trump supporter in New York.
But this was Florida, a ruby-red state these days. The governor, Ron DeSantis is already running for president. Miami’s Cuban American Republican mayor is considering a presidential bid also.
Every potential GOP presidential candidate is trying to assess how deep Trump support runs in the face of federal indictments. How many of his loyal, some would say rabid, fan base would turn up at the federal courthouse to voice their outrage at the prosecution of their beloved but felonious Trump?
Would, as former gubernatorial candidate and eminent election denier Kari Lake had suggested on Sunday, people come out with their guns? She had warned that if prosecutors “want to get to President Trump,” they’re “going to have to go through me, and 75 million Americans just like me. And most of us are card-carrying members of the NRA [National Rifle Association].”
The Miami police said they could handle up to 50,000 protesters. Republican presidential nominee hopeful, biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, came to address the crowds outside and vowed to immediately pardon Trump if he were elected.
Former South Carolina governor and Trump cabinet member, Nikki Haley who is also running for president, had briefly criticized the classified doc thief for his handling of sensitive national security info but then reassured GOP primary voters that she too would consider pardoning the felonious ex-prez.
So what have we learned from this incessant Trump coverage which has tracked him from his golf resort in New Jersey to his Doral golf resort to the federal courthouse to a post-arraignment campaign stop at Versailles Café in Little Havana in Miami which is a Republican stronghold, to the Miami International Airport, on to his gilded private plane, back to his New Jersey golf club for his fundraising speech which made me both throw things at the TV and double over laughing?
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