The streets of Manhattan are shockingly quiet as many in the country wait with bated breath for ex-president Donald Trump to be indicted by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg this week over the $130,000 he allegedly paid to adult film star Stormy Daniels during his 2016 presidential campaign.
Last weekend, Trump called on his supporters to protest his expected indictment. In response, NYPD set up metal barricades outside the Manhattan Criminal Court, where the 76-year-old, one-term, twice-impeached ex-president is expected to be arraigned, as well as outside nearby Trump Tower.
But it turned out the barricades weren’t needed.
When Monday finally rolled around, very few people MAGA maniacs actually heeded Trump’s call. And by “very few” we mean, like, less than 50 of them gathered outside the courthouse. There were more reporters, onlookers, dogwalkers, nannies with strollers, and other casual passersby.
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I’m at the pro-Trump protest put on by the NY Young Republicans Club. Not a joke, there are more reporters here than Trump supporters.
“We threw it together at the last minute, the last 24 hours,” Gavin Wax, president of the New York Young Republican Club, told Politico afterwards.
“We weren’t sure we even wanted to come out because some people don’t like us, but we are here to show that there is support for President Trump in the bluest area in the country, here in Manhattan.”
Wax added that it was always intended to be a “low key” affair, even though previously in the day he had predicted more than three times the number of protestors, calling Trump’s impending indictment a “politicized prosecution and persecution without any merit.”
Meanwhile, over at nearby Trump Tower, a different group of protestors gathered. These ones waved signs accusing Trump of seditious conspiracy and demanding that he be arrested.
Trump called for protests but outside Trump Tower right now are demonstrators calling for his arrest lol pic.twitter.com/M40nSGAV1t
Trump was initially expected to be indicted on Tuesday, but word on the street is it might not actually happen until Wednesday, which is the next time the grand jury investigating the alleged hush money payment is expected to meet, or possibly later in the week.
Until then, here’s was folx are saying on Twitter…
Greetings from Manhattan Criminal Court where a Trump indictment may come any day now.
Not sure what to expect but I’ll be threading any updates here.
Lots of police and media, the latter of who are swarming a group of anti-Trump demonstrators. pic.twitter.com/37ngOb1DR9
“He probably doesn’t believe it entirely because it’s never happened.”
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It was the biggest crowd evah in mid-town Manhattan. There was never a crowd this big all chanting his name. It was the loudest crowd everyone could hear it and is saying it was the loudest. Everyone is talking about how biggly it was.
Funny how even his supporters now don’t want to go to jail. LOL The whole thing was such a farce. The only one saying he’d be arrested was the traitor himself. Total publicity stunt. Just so when it doesn’t happen he can say he orchestrated that ‘escape’ as well. Teflon Donny strikes again. How he can avoid prosecution of so many clearly illegal actions, let alone still have supporters, completely baffles me.
As for “the bluest area in the country, here in Manhattan,” the Boogie Down Bronx and Brooklyn in New York City, as well as Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Houston, the states of Vermont, Rhode Island, etc. would beg to differ!
What?! Gasp! You mean masses of maggots aren’t swarming lower Manhattan aka marching off the cliff for their cult leader? It’s not as if he won’t protect them and pay for their bail & legal bills and keep them out of jail afterward … oh wait, that’s exactly what he will do. Nothing.
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Mr. Stadnick
It was the biggest crowd evah in mid-town Manhattan. There was never a crowd this big all chanting his name. It was the loudest crowd everyone could hear it and is saying it was the loudest. Everyone is talking about how biggly it was.
correctio
cringe af
Mack
lol
xanadude
Funny how even his supporters now don’t want to go to jail. LOL The whole thing was such a farce. The only one saying he’d be arrested was the traitor himself. Total publicity stunt. Just so when it doesn’t happen he can say he orchestrated that ‘escape’ as well. Teflon Donny strikes again. How he can avoid prosecution of so many clearly illegal actions, let alone still have supporters, completely baffles me.
RIGay
After the Drag Queens clean house, no wonder no Proud Boy wants to show their face in the Big Apple!
Also, I suspect word is out that if anyone gets arrested, Trump ain’t payin’ any legal fees or bail.
dbmcvey
Still too many people attended.
Kangol2
Sad!
As for “the bluest area in the country, here in Manhattan,” the Boogie Down Bronx and Brooklyn in New York City, as well as Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Houston, the states of Vermont, Rhode Island, etc. would beg to differ!
Nancy Joyzee
The world will be a better place when he is GONE! To Quote JWB “thus always to tyrants”
fredk
What?! Gasp! You mean masses of maggots aren’t swarming lower Manhattan aka marching off the cliff for their cult leader? It’s not as if he won’t protect them and pay for their bail & legal bills and keep them out of jail afterward … oh wait, that’s exactly what he will do. Nothing.
RoyM
What’s even more annoying? Nobody came to arrest Trump either. Never going to happen.
GayEGO
Ha ha ha! Another Trump loss! Trump will run to Putin but will be caught when the Grand Jury indicts him!
Jimmynj
That traitorous criminal should be rotting in jail for the rest of his pathetic life. Anyone still supporting him is a moron.
Invader7
They’re just not that into you. NO one likes the fat toad !!