Trump leads his supporters in vulgar chants at Jersey Shore rally
Donald Trump attacked his hush money trial prosecutor and judge at a New Jersey rally. He claimed he was being indicted on "bullshit" charges.
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- Donald Trump held a rally in Wildwood, New Jersey, on Saturday night.
- The former president launched vulgar jabs at his opponents and roused crude chants from his supporters.
- Trump is on trial accused of making a hush money payment to the porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016.
Donald Trump launched a slew of vulgar jabs at his legal and political opponents and encouraged crude chants at a rally Saturday evening in Wildwood, New Jersey.
Thousands of MAGA supporters listened as Trump referred to the Manhattan District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, as "fat Alvin," calling him "radical" and "a corrupt guy."
The presumptive Republican nominee for the 2024 elections then turned his attention to the judge presiding over his hush-money trial, New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan. He said Merchan was a "highly conflicted judge."
Trump's trial, where he stands accused of falsifying 34 business records to cover up a $130,000 hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels days before the 2016 election, is about to enter its fourth week in New York.
Daniels testified before the court this week, giving granular details about a sexual encounter she claims to have had with Trump in 2006.
At the rally, Trump said the whole thing was a "Biden show trial."
The former president said he had been indicted "more than the great Alphonse Capone… on bullshit, too." It prompted members of the crowd to chant "Bullshit! Bullshit! Bullshit!" in response.
Trump says he’s “been indicted more than the great Al Capone, on bullshit.”
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The crowd erupts into a chant: “BULLSHIT! BULLSHIT!”
Trump seems to realize this is not a good look, glitches hard looking for an out, and comes up with his father who was in the KKK. pic.twitter.com/wAA45wRCnz
As Trump continued his typical attacks on the Biden administration, he asked the crowd: "Everything they touch turns to what?"
"Shit!" the crowd chanted in response.
"You can't use the word shit," Trump joked back.
Trump: "Everything they touch... turns to what?"
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) May 11, 2024
Crowd: "SH*T!"
Trump: "You shouldn't use that kind of language" pic.twitter.com/CLsZ9okHN6
The last time Trump was in Wildwood in January 2020, the Senate had been holding Trump's first impeachment trial. At the time, he told his supporters, "Democrats are obsessed with demented hoaxes, crazy witch hunts and deranged partisan crusades."
Trump took a similar line on Saturday night: "The radical left Democrats rigged the election in 2020, and we're not going to allow them to rig the election in 2024."
Trump predicted on Saturday that he would "win the state of New Jersey," per The Washington Post.
Wildwood is a Republican enclave in a solid blue state. New Jersey has not voted Republican since George H.W. Bush in 1988. Latest polling for the 2024 presidential election puts Biden comfortably ahead by 7%.