The judge presiding over former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York has issued an order requiring the former president to attend a court hearing on his alleged violations of a gag order, with the judge threatening that failure to appear could lead to his immediate arrest and imprisonment.
“Warning: your failure to appear in court may result in your immediate arrest and imprisonment for contempt of court,” the judge wrote.
April 25 was a big day for former President Donald Trump as the Supreme Court heard arguments over his presidential immunity defense while a second criminal trial made significant headway in testimonies in New York.
Still, President Trump took the opportunity to make a campaign stop before either of those events, shaking hands with construction workers in New York as a crowd chanted “USA, USA” on 48th Street and Park Avenue at 6:30 a.m.
“I’m going to make a play for New Yorkers,” President Trump told reporters at the event. “They said, I just heard, there was a very good poll that came out. Normally, a Democrat will win New York. Biden is the worst president in history, we have some very bad people here, but we have the greatest people and they’re right behind me. They all want us to run, and we’re going to run very hard in New York.”