Forward of coming into Manhattan court docket on Tuesday, former President Donald Trump slammed anti-Israel protests raging on school campuses as a “disgrace” whereas pinning blame on President Biden.
“What’s going on at the college level … Columbia, NYU and others is a disgrace. And it’s really on Biden,” Trump mentioned Tuesday morning outdoors the courtroom.
“He’s got the wrong words. He doesn’t know who he’s backing. And it’s a mess. And if this were me, they’d be after me, they’d be after me so much, but they’re trying to get him a pass. And what’s going on is a disgrace to our country. And it’s all Biden’s fault, and everybody knows it. He’s got no message, he’s got no compassion and doesn’t know what he’s doing,” Trump continued, adding Biden is the “worst president in the history of our country.”
Antisemitism has intensified on the campuses of a number of the nation’s most elite universities in latest days, together with protesters on Columbia’s campus saying Jewish college students had been Hamas’s “next targets” amid ongoing demonstrations. Greater than 100 college students had been arrested on Columbia’s campus final week, whereas dozens extra had been arrested on Yale’s and NYU’s campuses this week. Some college students have additionally established encampments on campus demanding their faculties fully divest from Israel.
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A rabbi at Columbia even warned Jewish college students to go away campus as a result of antisemitism, whereas a professor on the college informed Fox Digital this weekend that anti-Israel campus teams have morphed into turning into an “actual terror organization” in the course of the latest protests.
“Al-Qassam you make us proud, kill another soldier now,” protesters on Columbia’s campus had been seen chanting over the weekend, referring to the army wing terrorist group Hamas.
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Biden and the White Home has condemned the protests, together with on Monday when he got here underneath fireplace for equating the antisemitic protests with individuals who “don’t understand” the Palestinians.
“I condemn the antisemitic protests. That’s why I have set up a program to deal with that. I also condemn those who don’t understand what’s going on with the Palestinians,” Biden informed reporters Monday.
Trump continued in his feedback Tuesday that Biden is “no friend of Israel” or the “Arab world.”
“It all starts with Joe Biden. The signals he puts out are so bad. And I can tell you he’s no friend of Israel, that’s for sure. And he’s no friend of the Arab world either,” Trump mentioned Tuesday morning outdoors the courtroom.
“He wants to take like a middle ground. And oftentimes that doesn’t work, but it’s certainly not working here. But what he’s done to Israel is abandon them, and he’s trying to be as nice as he can to the other side,” Trump continued.
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The forty fifth president is in Manhattan for the second week of his trial involving 34 counts of allegedly falsifying enterprise data within the first diploma. He pleaded not responsible to all costs.
The fees had been introduced by the Manhattan District Lawyer’s workplace in connection to Trump’s former private legal professional Michael Cohen paying former pornographic actor Stormy Daniels $130,000 forward of the 2016 election to allegedly quiet her claims of an extramarital affair. Trump has denied having an affair with Daniels.
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Prosecutors allege that the Trump Group reimbursed Cohen and fraudulently logged the funds as authorized bills. Prosecutors are working to show that Trump falsified data with an intent to commit or conceal a second crime, which is a felony.
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The case kicked off in earnest on Monday, after the court docket spent final week choosing and seating 12 jurors and 6 alternates to the panel. Tuesday will embody a listening to on the prosecution’s request that Trump be held in contempt for violating a gag order, which bans him from talking publicly about witnesses and relations of court docket officers, in addition to continued testimony for the trial’s first witness, former media writer David Pecker.