Trump Demands White House Apologize to Him for ‘SHAM TRIAL’ 

Former President Donald Trump demanded an apology from the White House on Friday night over the legal hot water he is in.

Trump is on trial in Manhattan, where he has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal hush money payments to cover up extramarital affairs ahead of the 2016 election. He denies wrongdoing, including the affairs.

The former president is also under criminal indictment in three other jurisdictions – two of which are federal cases. In all, he has pleaded not guilty to 88 counts.

On Friday, Trump reiterated his baseless contention that President Joe Biden and the White House are behind the prosecutions. In a twist, Trump demanded “apologies” on Truth Social from those who done ‘im wrong:

There is virtually universal agreement of the fact that the Alvin Bragg Witch Hunt against me, a SHAM TRIAL instigated and prosecuted directly from the inner halls of the White House and DOJ, should be immediately dropped, with apologies to me and all of the others who have had to live with this Election Interfering Hoax against Crooked Joe Biden’s Political Opponent. Not nice!!!

Trump has repeatedly railed against the principal characters in his prosecutions, including Judge Juan Merchan, who is presiding over his trial in New York. Merchan issued a gag order on Trump designed to prevent the former president from attacking witnesses, jurors, court staff, and their families. The order does not apply to Merchan himself and Trump has availed himself of this exception the world over.

Moreover, Trump has enlisted congressional surrogates who have taken turns traveling to New York for his trial, where they have helped him circumvent the gag order by railing against witnesses in the case.

In one strange scene this week, several members of Congress donned Trump-esque navy blue suits with red ties outside the courthouse.