On Tuesday, Trump appeared in court to cheers and gasps from the many people who had gathered there. They did not agree on much, but all witnessed a historic event. This is the first time a sitting or former president of the United States has been prosecuted. Trump denied criminal liability on all 34 counts, which deal with falsifying business documents and hiding negative information from voters. Several of the republicans who were present outside the court building thought the whole thing was unfair, and rather about political persecution. A protester outside the court building in New York. Photo: DREW ANGERER / AFPA protester outside the court building in New York. Photo: DREW ANGERER / AFP – The Democrats are so afraid of Donald Trump that they have to remove him from the ballot, said David Rem, who the AP news agency has spoken to. – They brought up this case to humiliate him, and prevent him from standing as a presidential candidate, said a fellow protester, Stephanie Lu, to Reuters. Thinks Trump is a “supervillain” Among the counter-protesters, the tone was different. – I think that the power that comes with his personality has carried him through many storms over several decades, and then definitely in the political system, said Dan McCool. – But once the legal system has to work. Democrats also lined up elsewhere in the country to mark the day. – I’m not one to kick people when they’re down, but I’m happy to witness his fall. – It seems that he is some kind of supervillain, said Mateo Escobar from Texas. Marjorie Taylor Greene tries to address the assembly in New York. Photo: Stefan Jeremiah / AP Marjorie Taylor Greene tries to address the assembly in New York. Photo: Stefan Jeremiah / AP Marjorie Taylor Greene, a congresswoman and well-known profile on the extreme right in American politics, was present in New York. She tried to speak to them through a megaphone, but what she said was drowned in shouting from both sides, reports the New York Times. Republican George Santos, who has his own investigation case against him in Congress, appeared for a short period. When asked if he was going to Mar-a-Lago to support Trump after the hearing, he replied according to the newspaper: – Guys, I don’t have a plane. Trump slightly up in opinion polls Sigrid Rege Gårdsvoll is a political commentator in Vårt Land and on amerikanpolitik.no. – It is initially a bit difficult to determine what this will mean politically. In the short term, it looks like it helps Donald Trump a little in the opinion polls. Political commentator Sigrid Rege Gårdsvoll. The measurements that have come after Trump declared that he was going to be arrested show that he has gone up a little, she says. – As we learn more about what the indictment contains, and how it is planned to prosecute the case, we will know more about how difficult this will be for Trump in purely political terms. The next court hearing is in December, and the trial is scheduled to start early in 2024. Trump’s lawyers are trying to move the starting point to the spring. – What can make it difficult for Trump is that the nomination election begins just before the New Year. So all of this comes at the same time. – Then you leave the process very open to criticism about political influence. Photo: Screen dump / Oda Eggesbø Ottesen She nevertheless adds that Trump himself uses the attention to his advantage, when he has the opportunity to do so, among other things by “whipping up the mood” of his followers on social media. – For many politicians there is good PR and bad PR. For Trump, it is the case that as long as he is in the media, it does not seem to matter whether the issues are positively or negatively angled. He wins at that. – People in the election campaign organization claim that he has collected close to 8 million dollars in the last four days. If that is true, it is clear that this generates a lot of income for him. – A bad day at work The Conservative Party on Tuesday was a situation where Trump had no control, which he dislikes. That is the interpretation of Eirik Løkke, who is an adviser at the Civita think tank and follows American politics closely. – I don’t think Trump thought this was very pleasant, I think he thought this was a bad day at work. It is speculated to what extent he was prepared for this. It was not allowed to take a picture of Trump during the hearing in New York. Photo: JANE ROSENBERG / Reuters It was not allowed to take a picture of Trump during the hearing in New York. Photo: JANE ROSENBERG / Reuters – Does his narrative work, as we heard last night, that this is “an attack on me and my campaign to prevent me from becoming president again”? – Somewhere along the way it probably does. Especially his own conservative and republican voters see this as a partisan decision, that there is a lot of politics involved. And I don’t think many people have changed their minds about that after yesterday. US expert Eirik Løkke from Civita. Photo: Tobias Prosch Simonsen / news In any case, it is more important that the prosecutor’s office in New York thinks there is a case, he says further, because they would hardly have taken it out otherwise. – Trump is in serious legal trouble here, although I am far from certain that he will be convicted. – The election campaign is already underway. Now we are in uncharted waters. It is uncertain what will happen with this case and all the other investigations against Trump, which I believe are even more serious.
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