Shortly after leaving the courtroom, former President Donald Trump made an appearance at a New York bodega where a worker stabbed a man was stabbed to death in self-defense.
On Monday, Trump became the first former president in U.S. history to stand trial in a criminal case as his hush money trial began with jury selection. Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential candidate, is in New York City for the case, brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg that alleges the former president made a payment to former adult film star Stormy Daniels shortly before the 2016 election. Trump has denied Daniels’ allegation that they had an affair and pleaded not guilty to all 34 charges of falsifying business records in connection with the payment. He also has accused Bragg of political persecution as he campaigns to return to the White House.
Jury selection continued Tuesday with Trump in the courtroom, and afterward, he went to a store on 139th Street and Broadway for his first campaign appearance since the criminal trial started.
The former president stopped by Sanaa Convenient Store, a bodega that sells snacks and drinks, where he addressed the crowd. Trump aides said he chose the store because it has been the site of a violent attack on an employee in 2022, according to the Associated Press (AP).
“They want law and order … every week they’re being robbed,” Trump said of businesses in the city, as he tried to compare his criminal prosecution with the state of New York streets while addressing the crowd and media outside the bodega, the AP reported.
“You know where the crime is? It’s in the bodegas,” Trump said.
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Newsweek reached out via email on Tuesday to Trump’s representatives for comment.
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