Donald Trump has repeatedly insisted that his multiple prosecutions are a conspiracy led by President Joe Biden to sabotage his reelection efforts.
No matter that there is no evidence to support Trump’s claim, least of all in Thursday’s guilty verdict in a New York state court that is not even under federal jurisdiction.
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But the once and would-be president’s supporters are predictably scouring every minute detail of the legal process — and embellishing the conspiracy theory.
Case in point: Dustin Stockton, a Republican political operative and MAGA provocateur who helped organize the national bus tour culminating in Trump’s rally at the Ellipse on Jan. 6, 2021, before his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol.
In response to the verdict, Stockton argued during an X Spaces session Thursday that people should boycott the state of New York, similar to the boycott against North Carolina when the state enacted a law in 2016 preventing transgender people from using the bathroom that accords with their gender identity. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s prosecution of the former president is tantamount to an existential attack against all of Trump’s supporters, Stockton argued.
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“So, if you’re a Republican, find some freaking nuts for once in your f------ life, and stand up against this s---,” he raged. “What they’re trying to do is kill us. They’re trying to starve us. They’re trying to deny us our freedoms.”
Then, riffing on a claim by Trump that Bragg is backed by the liberal financier George Soros, Stockton again made the outlandish claim that there is a conspiracy to kill Trump supporters. (A CNN factcheck found that Soros and a political action committee that Soros supports contributed to another PAC that in turn donated to Bragg’s campaign.)
“You don’t hate this government,” Stockton complained. “You don’t hate the Soros people nearly as much as you should. Because they want you dead. They hate you. So, are you gonna step up and do something?”
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Stockton decried Trump’s July 11 sentencing date set by Judge Juan Merchan falling only four days before the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wis.
“So, they made sure to set this up right before the RNC convention, right,” he said, “which is usually a huge momentum boost. This is 100 percent, like the whole point of this is not about justice, right, we’ve talked for days about all the different ways that they stretched the law, the novel legal theories, that they came up with to get this result out of a very small group of rogue lawyers out of New York.”
