A Trump supporter who regularly attends the court opened the door of a van this Thursday afternoon, from which pink balloons about a meter long came out and spread throughout the area, also drawing the attention of the public. journalists waiting outside the court.
The images quickly reached social media, reported the Efe agency.
The balloons had the faces of people like Judge Juan Marchand, who presided over Trump’s trial, or Manhattan prosecutor Alvin Bragg, who brought the indictment that brought the former president to trial.
Another face present in the balloons was that of Jack Smith, the special prosecutor who prosecuted Trump in Washington for the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Initially, a group of Trump supporters who were also nearby misinterpreted this as an attack on their leader and began chanting “shame on you, shame on you.”
But then he fell silent when he saw the faces in the balloons, according to a journalist who witnessed the incident.
Trump is on trial for 34 falsifications of accounting documents allegedly used to hide a payment for a sex scandal that occurred before the 2016 presidential campaign.
A sum of 130,000 dollars (121,000 euros) was paid to former pornographic film star Stormy Daniels to silence her about a sexual relationship that took place in 2006, when Trump was already married to his wife Melania. The former North American head of state denies the relationship.
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