Donald Trump said Friday morning that he is not allowed to talk to the media, talking to them without even knowing what they are talking about.
Maggie Haberman posted this about Trump's comments outside the courthouse:
Trump spoke in the hallway before reentering the waiting room. Without irony, he told reporters: “They took away my constitutional right to speak, and that includes speaking to you.”
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 19, 2024
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If Trump's constitutional right to speak was taken away, how could he stand outside the courthouse and talk to reporters?
Trump creates his own reality and believes that if he repeats his lies often enough, people will accept them as truth. But like the former president's lie that the trial will keep him out of the campaign, Friday's lie is absurdly obvious to everyone except Trump.
The Trump campaign thought it could use the Manhattan trial to help the Republican presidential campaign by garnering tons of free media, but as the first week of criminal trials concluded https://www.politicususa.com/2024/04/18/ trump-melts-down-outside-court-house-after-realizing-he-will-stand-trial.htmlThat didn't happen.
Outside of Fox News and Newsmax, the media quickly lost interest in Trump's one-man press theater, and free media attention instead focused on Trump's habit of sleeping in the courtroom.
The only nickname Trump has earned this week is 'Sleepy Don.'
Trump is expected to hold his weekly campaign event with voters on Saturday. He continues a pattern of not campaigning that began in the Republican presidential primary, a continuation of his 2020 re-election campaign.
Donald Trump can do, say, or create whatever reality he wants because he thinks the presidency will be handed to him. The man who has been given everything in life expects to receive 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in November.
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