Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci said Friday that former President Trump’s Hershey money trial in New York is serving as a “mandatory loyalty test.”
“This is a segment of senior Republican officials, but it’s a mandatory loyalty test by all of them,” Scaramucci said on CNN’s “The Lead” with anchor Jake Tapper. “They are using the same hand signals as Donald Trump. “They are dressed like Donald Trump,” he said.
“But it will never be enough for Donald Trump,” he added.
His comments come after a number of Republican politicians traveled to New York to attend Trump’s hush trial. Most notable attendees included Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH), Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), House Liberty Caucus Chairman Bob Good (R-VA), and Representative Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.). There was this.
“Unfortunately, Michael Cohen found out about this. “I and others who worked for President Trump could not please him and were incredibly transactional,” Scaramucci continued.
Good, who visited the court Thursday, said he and his colleagues went to the trial to stand in solidarity with Trump, who is under a speaking ban in the case.
“They got a gag order on him,” Good said Friday on Fox Business’ “Varney & Co.” “So we went up there to talk. This corrupt judge will not allow you to speak.”
The expanded order restricts him from commenting publicly about witnesses, prosecutors, court staff and Judge Juan Merchan’s family. But he can mention the judge and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
“This is a judge who seems to be handling all the high-profile conservative trials,” Good said in a Fox Business interview. “And his daughter is also raising tens of millions of dollars for the Democratic Party through this trial.”
Trump faces 34 counts of falsifying business records related to a $130,000 payment Cohen made to adult film star Story Daniels near the end of the 2016 presidential election. Her hush money payment was intended to prevent her from going public with allegations that she had an affair with the former president in 2006, which he denied.
Daniels and Cohen, Trump’s former personal attorney, both testified at the trial. Cross-examination of Cohen is expected to continue next week.
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