'Clownish': Trump allies mocked for donning matching suits for court
They were dressing to impress an audience of one.
Republicans flocked to a Lower Manhattan courthouse Tuesday as a show of solidarity with former President Donald Trump as he attends his criminal hush money trial, now in its fourth week.
North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, Florida Rep. Byron Donalds, former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, and Florida Rep. Cory Mills held a presser outside 100 Centre Street — all sporting dark blue suits, white collared shirts and red ties in a styled effort to pay their respects to the GOP's presumptive presidential nominee.
Isaiah Swift noticed the Trumpian uniform, writing: "All wearing the same tie. Interesting."
"Another edition of ‘Who wants to be VP’ reaches an excruciating climax," read an X post by Jezzytgl.
@asphyxious2 was blunt about the obvious fashion statement, tweeting: "Is that the ‘stand in court with the criminal leader of our party’ standard uniform they are all wearing?"
On MSNBC, Nicolle Wallace called the uniform "clownish."
Former prosecutor Andrew Weissmann added it reminded him of mob cases.
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"There is not an organized crime case that I have ever done ... the main witness goes on and you know what you see in the back of the courtroom? The defendant's buddies, which are associatss and soldiers in the crime family, just as a show of support."
Burgum called the case and the way it's being tried a tragedy of justice.
"And of course we know from the polls that have come out even from The New York Times and Rasmussen Interactive — President Trump is leading all over the country," Burgum, a rising contender to be selected to his presidential ticket as Trump's Vice President.
"The conclusion you can reach from that is the American people have already acquitted Donald Trump because of the things that they're concerned about — inflation crime, the border, the economy — all of these things President Trump is leading by huge double digits versus Joe Biden."
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He continued, "And the sooner this sham trial can be concluded the sooner the president can get back to campaigning about the issues that matter to them."
Also paying tribute was House Speaker Mike Johnson (though it appears he didn't get the red tie memo that the others wore).
“This is a man who is clearly on a mission for personal revenge,” Johnson said taking aim at the 45th president's former fixer and attorney Michael Cohen who was on his third day of questioning in court on Tuesday. “He is someone who has a history of perjury. No one should believe a word he says in there.”
Watch the MSNBC video below or at this link.