Former President Donald Trump used a lunchtime break in his criminal hush money trial Friday to crank out a flood of posts quoting other people attacking the prosecution.
The former president hammered out 14 Truth Social posts in one hour, while adding only one brief comment of his own.
The embattled former president started by citing Gregg Jarrett of Fox News, writing "Is District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case a joke? A prank? A farce?…It’s all of the above…It’s also an abominable abuse of our justice system and a wretched assault on the rule of law.”
This was followed by Truth Social post quoting conservative attorney Johnathan Turley complaining, "This case is becoming legally obscene…Defense doing well, have been all along.”
Turley made a repeat appearance in the midst of the Truth Social onslaught.
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The former president later followed that with a post from Matt Whitaker, who briefly warmed the Attorney General's chair in the Trump Administration, writing, "Case is undermining the Rule of Law and the Faith of Americans in the Justice System. New York Attorneys or Judges should be concerned with long term effects this has on the Courts in New York and Nationwide.”
Making a surprise appearance among the wide array of conservatives and GOP lawmakers whose comments Trump cited was NBC's Laura Jarrett.
Jarrett, as quoted, opined, "With case winding down, it’s hard to know if anyone actually understands the actual crime that’s being alleged here,” after which Trump added an effusive, "THERE IS NONE!"
The former president wrapped up his flurry of quote-posts with Fox's Garrett again, who wrote, "This case is a partisan ‘witch hunt’ —a trial in search of an imaginary crime. It can’t be found because it doesn’t exist. It’s not a criminal offense to conceal a legal act. You can’t unlawfully influence an election after the election. The prosecution’s legal theory makes no sense. The case against Trump has been on life support since the moment DA Alvin Bragg engineered the indictment. A fair and competent judge would have long ago ordered the DA to pull the plug on his brain-dead case.”
These quotations likely reflect Trump's desire to speak publicly about the trial in the face of limitations set by a gag order from Justice Juan Merchan that has already cost him $9,000 in fines.