The former president faces 34 felony charges in New York related to an alleged scheme to bury allegations of extramarital affairs ahead of the 2016 presidential election. Trump’s legal problems extend beyond the two that bubbled up behind the scenes on Thursday. “But I do look forward to the debate with Joe - Crooked Joe,” he added. “Seriously, you look at the boards … and you’re looking at these numbers. “Nixon and Reagan and Bush … no, they didn’t debate in the primaries,” Trump said on Thursday. The former president and his advisers have privately raised concerns about the debate slated for August, saying it’s too far in advance of the first nominating contests, according to two people familiar with the conversations. Trump leaned on his polling leads to revive his threats to skip a presidential primary debate. A Fox News poll out Wednesday showed Trump with a 32-point lead over DeSantis. Chris Sununu, whose name drew immediate and loud boos from the crowd in his home state. Ron DeSantis - “Ron DeSanctus” - former New Jersey Gov. Trump also laid into his potential Republican rivals, citing polling that shows him with double-digit leads to rib Florida Gov. “Trump’s stewardship of the economy was an abject disaster, in stark contrast to the over 12 million jobs the Biden-Harris administration has helped deliver for America in just two years.” “Trump’s lies won’t change the fact he holds the worst jobs record of any president since the Great Depression and rigged the economy for the ultra-wealthy and biggest corporations,” Moussa said in a statement. Trump repeatedly attacked Biden, calling him a “hopeless person” and a “threat to democracy” who “doesn’t have a clue.” And he touted his record on the economy, saying that he left Biden with “a booming economy” but that the president “blew it to shreds.”Īmmar Moussa, a spokesperson for the Democratic National Committee, pushed back immediately. Instead, he used a speech on economic policy to hurl insults at Biden - including slapping the “crooked” label he’s long affixed to Hillary Clinton’s name to Biden instead. Trump has denied Carroll’s account, saying the episode “never happened.” He was admonished by the judge overseeing the proceedings on Wednesday over a social media post in which he called the lawsuit “a made up SCAM.” Jean Carroll, a magazine columnist who alleges Trump sexually assaulted her in the dressing room of a luxury department store in the 1990s, that began Tuesday in Manhattan federal court. The former president made no direct mention of the lawsuit brought by E. Trump returned to New Hampshire on Thursday for the first time since his legal drama deepened and since Biden launched his reelection campaign. “If anything,” Trump’s legal troubles “just seem to propel him,” Sooner added. “It’s just a lot of distraction,” said Bert Sooner, a 60-year-old Republican and Trump supporter from Gilmanton, N.H. Trump supporters at his campaign rally in downtown Manchester were unfazed by the latest developments in his legal woes, accusing Democrats of weaponizing the judicial system against the former president and dismissing as more noise the civil defamation lawsuit in which Trump is accused of rape. A recurring joke he made again Thursday about being served a subpoena if he so much as flies over a Democratic-leaning state drew laughs and applause from those attending. The former president’s polling lead over his 2024 Republican rivals has grown as his legal morass deepens.
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