Someone in former President Donald Trump’s motorcade stuck out a phone to record fans screaming “WE LOVE TRUMP!” and other slogans as they headed into the courthouse for closing arguments.
The defense rested its case in the Stormy Daniels hush money-election interference trial last Tuesday, with closing arguments beginning this Tuesday morning after Memorial Day Weekend — after which the 34 felony counts will go to the jury for deliberations.
As they have every day of the trial, pool cameras covered every instant of the world outside the courtroom, including Trump’s emergence from Trump Tower into his motorcade, the ride to the courthouse, and the scene outside the courtroom.
One camera captured Trump’s motorcade as it rounded the corner toward the courthouse, and a group of about 50 fans with signs and banners screamed their support for Trump:
TRUMP FANS: WE LOVE TRUMP! WE LOVE TRUMP! WE LOVE TRUMP!TRUMP FAN: He did NOTHING WRONG!TRUMP FANS: WE LOVE TRUMP!TRUMP FAN: He’s done nothing wrong!TRUMP FANS: WE LOVE TRUMP!TRUMP FAN: Thank you!
In one of the vehicles in Trump’s motorcade, a gray SUV, you can see someone in the passenger seat poking a phone out the window to record the reactions of the fans. It definitely wasn’t Trump, who rode in a black SUV and doesn’t ride in the front seat.
Trump entered the courthouse Tuesday morning with some of his
Not long after that, President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign staged a press conference in front of the courthouse — across the street from the same gathering of fans that cheered Trump’s arrival. They could be heard shouting and heckling during the press conference, and mobbed Robert DeNiro, a speaker at the presser, as he left.
Watch above via Pool.