During Donald Trump's civil fraud trial on Wednesday, a woman was arrested after she stood up in the middle of testimony and walked toward the front of the courtroom where the twice impeached four times indicted former president sat. She's a Trump stan and had something to say. She works for the courts, so it's unclear if she still has her job. She is on administrative leave, though. Everything Trump touches dies.
Via the Associated Press:
The woman expressed a desire to aid Trump, and the court system said that neither he nor anyone else at the trial was ever in danger. The ex-president and 2024 GOP front-runner showed no reaction in court and later told reporters he wasn't aware of the episode that had unfolded behind him.
"Who got arrested?" Trump asked. "We didn't know anything about it."
The woman, later identified as a court system employee, retreated after a court officer told her to return to her seat. A short time later, officers escorted her out and arrested her on a contempt charge for disrupting a court proceeding, court spokesperson Lucian Chalfen said.
Chalfen said the woman had been yelling out to Trump that she wanted to help him, though reporters in the courtroom did not hear her raise her voice. She was later heard screaming in the courthouse lobby as officers removed her from the building.
But don't tell these people they are in a cult, OK? They get mad.
Outside the courtroom, the woman was seen on an NBC camera telling court officers: "You're scaring me, and I have a right to be here. I'm an American citizen, and I'm also a court employee. I'm also just here to support Donald Trump."
She went on to say that she had been "peacefully watching this proceeding" and had complied when a court officer told her not to cause "any more problems."
Chalfen said the woman, whose name wasn't released, has been placed on administrative leave and barred from entering state courts while authorities investigate.
It's hard to understand how Trump has any support. If Biden were facing 91 charges in 4 different jurisdictions with a mountain of evidence against him, I'd say it's been nice, Joe, but I'm done here. Build Back Better in prison.
