‘Everybody Was Freezing in There’: Trump Takes Victimhood to New Level
Presumed presidential nominee chooses his personal comfort as a compelling issue
For a moment, Donald Trump seemed to forget that he was a criminal defendant in a New York courtroom, and sounded more like an old woman at a Denny’s.
The former president — on trial for hiding and falsifying a hush-money payment to a porn star with whom he allegedly had an affair before the 2016 presidential election — took the sense of victimhood for which he’s so famous to a new level Thursday.
Outside the courtroom, Trump addressed gathered reporters, where he complained about the temperature inside the chamber.
He was ranting, for the umpteenth time, about having to face accountability for the many crimes he’s been alleged to have committed.
As a criminal defendant on trial for the first time, Trump must remain in court most days as his trial proceeds.
Trump, who is running to return to the White House, chose to run on — over the many crucial issues available to him, like the US economy or events in the volatile Middle East — about his personal discomfort over the temperature he has to sit in, while in that courtroom as if he was an elderly customer in an overly air-conditioned restaurant.
“It’s a shame. And I’m sitting here for days now, from morning until night, in that freezing room, freezing, everybody was freezing in there. And all for this. And this is your result,” Trump said, holding a sheaf of press articles about the trial. “Look at that, each one of them is a story. And it’s very unfair. Very bad thing. Very bad thing.”
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