Trump will head back to NY trial 'to take a stand and show people he’s not backing down': report
Over one week after ex-President Donald Trump left New York during his $250 million civil fraud trial involving the Trump Organization, according to an exclusive Thursday, October 12 report from The Messenger's Marc Caputo and Adam Klasfeld, the 2024 MAGA hopeful will head back to the Empire State after a Monday, October 16 Iowa rally.
Per The Messenger, "At the trial's kickoff earlier this month, Trump sat for three days in court and gave regular press conferences to the nation's media from right outside the proceedings about the trial of the Trump Organization," having recently "spread a false rumor about Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron's clerk Alison Greenfield on his platform Truth Social, leading to the first-ever gag order imposed on him, narrowly targeted to prevent him from commenting on the court's staff."
The news outlet reports:
When Trump is in New York City, advisers expect he'll continue to drive home his twin messages: that there was no fraud in the case because no one was defrauded and that the judge's prior opinion in the case was flawed because it referenced a government property appraisal for his Mar-a-Lago club that failed to account for the true market value of the historic building and 20 acres in Palm Beach, Florida.
Witness testimony so far largely has not focused on Mar-a-Lago valuations, however.
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A source with knowledge of the ex-president's travel arrangements told The Messenger, "He wants to be there. This is his personal business, his family business. So it cuts a little closer. He wants to be there to take a stand and show people he's not backing down."
Although "court schedules are subject to change, depending on the length of prior witness testimony," according to the report, ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen is set "to testify on Tuesday, following testimony by Trump Organization's accounting department."
Cohen told the news outlet, "It's been 5 years since we have seen one another. I look forward to the reunion."
The Messenger's full report is available at this link.
