'Total hatred': Trump most upset about this DNC speech
At the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago, some of the more high-profile speakers — like United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff and former First Couple Barack and Michelle Obama — had their own biting remarks about former President Donald Trump. But another speaker this week was especially bothersome to the ex-president.
In a post to his Truth Social platform Wednesday morning, Trump wrote that New York Governor Kathy Hochul "was the nastiest speaker" on Monday night of the convention. The Daily Beast's Dan Ladden-Hall further noted that Hochul focused the bulk of her speech on Trump's actions in his home state of New York (though he has since adopted Florida as his new home).
"Donald Trump was born a New Yorker, but ended up a fraud, a philanderer and a felon," Hochul said. "If you think you’re tired of Donald Trump, talk to a New Yorker. We’ve had to deal with him for 78 long years—the fraud, the tax-dodging, the sham university, the shady charities."
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"He abuses women, brags about it, and then takes away their rights. And New Yorkers are sick of it. It’s no wonder he had to flee to Mar-a-Lago — sorry about that, Florida, sorry about that," she continued. "Trump hasn’t spent much time in New York lately. Except, that is, to get convicted of 34 felonies."
Trump took offense to Hochul's characterization of his formative years in the Empire State, saying the governor's "total hatred, and statements made about me, had no bounds."
"Unfairly, I am before a very biased and hateful New York Judicial System that is appointed and largely controlled by the Governor," Trump wrote. "With the vitriol displayed by her on Monday night, it is no wonder that the Judges have treated me so badly."
The former president is incorrect that the judges who have ruled against him are connected to Hochul. Judge Arthur Engoron — who found Trump liable for hundreds of millions of dollars earlier this year for defrauding the State of New York — was elected to New York City Civil Court in 2002, when Hochul was serving on the Hamburg, New York town board in upstate Erie County.
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Judge Lewis F. Kaplan — who presided over the civil trial in which Trump was found guilty of defaming writer E. Jean Carroll, who he sexually abused — was appointed to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York by former President Bill Clinton in 1994. And Judge Juan Merchan, who oversaw Trump's criminal trial, has been an acting justice of the New York County Supreme Court since 2009, when Hochul was still serving as the Erie County clerk.
Trump's Truth Social post suggests that the ex-president has been stewing on Hochul's comments for awhile, given that she was one of the earlier speakers on the first night of the convention. The New York governor was mocked by late night host Stephen Colbert for a gaffe in which she referred to Vice President Kamala Harris as "the first president of the United States."
Night three of the DNC will feature Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nevada), Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, former President Bill Clinton and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, who is also the 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee. Thursday night will feature Harris' acceptance speech of the presidential nomination.
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