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President Trump has been joined by a slate of political allies during his ongoing Manhattan criminal trial in New York. On Monday, Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., went to bat for the 45th president just outside the dreary courtroom, chiding the court for displaying a lack of “respect.”
While speaking with the press on Monday, the Alabama senator said, “First of all, I’m disappointed in the courtroom. I’m hearing ‘Mr. Trump, Mr. Trump.’ He is former President Trump. Give him some respect! I mean, that’s what that place is in there – it’s no respect.”
Tuberville also described the inside of Judge Juan Merchan’s courtroom as “depressing” and lambasted the environment amidst New York, which he said was an “icon of our country.”
He continued, “Mental anguish is trying to be pushed on a Republican candidate for the President of the United States this year. That’s ALL this is. He’s been here a MONTH…I am disappointed in looking at, supposedly, the American citizens in that courtroom that the DA comes in and he acts like it’s his Super Bowl.”
Tuberville reiterated that the case was simply about impressing “mental anguish” upon the Republican candidate for president by locking him in a bleak and negative courtroom environment.
Monday’s courtroom proceedings attracted a media circus as Michael Cohen, an ex-lawyer and convicted felon, provided his testimony about the events surrounding the so-called “hush money” payment that he handed over to porn actress Stormy Daniels.
Daniels also took the stand last week and offered a drawn-out and increasingly salacious account of her “affair” with Trump. The president has denied that the affair ever took place, and this week, he reminded the press that the entire criminal trial “all comes from Biden and the White House.”
This week, Trump was also joined by Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance (R), New York Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R), and Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall.