New York, 1 Apr. The ultra-conservative Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green will participate in a protest in solidarity with former President Donald Trump next Tuesday in New York, and that has been summoned in front of the court in which Trump is expected to appear before a judge who will read the charges against him he.
According to an announcement released by Green herself, the “Rally for Trump” will start at 12:00 noon (16:00 GMT) in Collect Pond Park, located right in front of the Manhattan courthouse, shortly before the scheduled time that the former president appear before the judge.
“Join us and Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene in a peaceful protest against (Manhattan District Attorney) Alvin Bragg’s heinous attack on President Donald J. Trump!” reads the call that has been announced by the Club of young republicans of New York.
After learning of Trump’s accusation last Thursday, related to the alleged irregular payment of 130,000 dollars (120,000 euros) in 2016 to buy the silence of the porn actress Stormy Daniels, who claims to have slept with Trump in 2006, Green was one of the congressmen from the most conservative wing of the Republican Party who did not hesitate to show their support for the businessman.
“This is what they do in communist countries to destroy their political opponents,” Green said then.
In a message on Twitter, Green encouraged New York supporters of Trump’s “Make America Great Again (MAGA)” slogan to join the protest.
“New York, put on your MAGA hats. By virtue of our constitutional rights, we will stand with President Trump and protest the tyrants. See you Tuesday,” he wrote.
As announced by the CNN channel yesterday, the former president will travel from Miami to New York on Monday to appear before the judge on Tuesday afternoon.
Specifically, his appointment with the judge will be at 2:15 p.m. local time, a hearing that has generated enormous expectation and for this reason the court has canceled other less important ones to avoid the movement of people on foot in the building for security reasons.
Various media have assured that the list of charges that the judge will communicate to him – and that have not yet been made public – is more than thirty, all related to the payment to Daniels and the possible concealment of that amount as electoral expenses.
His lawyer Joe Tacopina clarified yesterday that Trump will not be handcuffed on the short journey between the prosecutor’s office and Judge Juan Manuel Merchan’s office, and this despite the fact that many “want him to be walked around” by the police.
He also specified that he will not plead guilty and that he has chosen to go to trial.
It was feared that Trump’s impeachment would cause his supporters to take to the streets en masse, but, so far, protests in support of the former president have been very few.
