Trump Takes Post-Trial Circus to Fear-Monger About Crime at NYC Bodega
After the second day of his criminal trial in New York, Donald Trump headed Uptown to a Harlem bodega, where he bad-mouthed the judge in his case and tried to fear-monger about crime and “migrants,” even tenuously connecting the two.
Once proceedings wrapped up in Manhattan Criminal Court, which saw the selection of seven members of the jury in his hush-money case, Trump stepped inside the Sanaa Convenient Store. There, clerk Jose Alba fatally stabbed a man in apparent self-defense two years ago, and was later charged with murder. The Manhattan district attorney’s office later dropped the charge.
Alba was not present in the store Tuesday, but Trump did speak with the establishment’s co-owner, Maad Ahmed, as well as Francisco Marte, a small business advocate, according to The New York Post. Ahmed told the outlet he will be voting for Trump “because he’s a strong guy.”