NEW YORK – Bystanders gathered outside the New York courthouse, where former President Trump faces criminal charges, gave their predictions about the outcome of the trial as the jury continued its second day of deliberations.
“Trump is 100% not guilty,” said a woman who came from Delaware to support Trump, saying it was “so sad” that the country has to endure a case like this, and calling President Judge Juan Merchan of “evil” and “stupid.”
“I pray that God blesses Trump. If Trump wins, America will win because these people are very evil. I can’t believe this is happening in America,” she told Fox News Digital. “I pray that God blesses Trump. We love Trump. I love God, I love Trump.”
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Bystanders outside the New York courthouse where former President Donald Trump’s trial is taking place spoke with Fox News Digital and gave their predictions about the verdict. (Fox News Digital)
Another woman who traveled from Florida to show support for Trump didn’t share what she thought the verdict would ultimately be, but she was certain that either way it made people look “very bad.” Democrats.
“They’re making our country look like a freak show. This is not what our judiciary is supposed to do. It’s ridiculous,” she said.
“These charges should never have been brought. Alvin Bragg is a New York lawyer. This is supposed to be a federal crime. This is out of his wheelhouse. He has no right to take this case for seven years later or whatever. They’re they’re laughing at us all over the world. They’re saying it’s not America, it’s not justice.”
She added that the trial does not harm or help Trump’s campaign because minds “are already made up.”
“I hear and see a lot of people who support him. People who you wouldn’t think by looking at them would support him, but they are. Maybe they’re afraid to say it in public, but I think we can make New York red,” she said.
“Good luck. You look like idiots. You make us look stupid all over the world,” she said of President Biden and the Democrats, who she said were, at least in part, at the origin of the prosecution against Trump. “God bless you, President Trump. You will always be our president. Felon or not, we love you.”
One man told Fox he anticipated a hung jury, but otherwise it would be a guilty verdict.
“If there is a person who resists, they will do stupid things to them and they will lose their life… not physically, just financially,” he said.
“In this case, the crime is so complex because there’s no crime there. They just threw a whole bunch of crap in there, so they had to go through and read all these pages… and It doesn’t go anywhere, so their decision is going to be based on a coin toss, I guess.”
The man said he “100 percent” believed there would be grounds to appeal if Trump were convicted.
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Not everyone in the audience was there to support Trump, including a New Yorker who described herself as a “lifelong Democrat” and Biden supporter.
“I think there is a tremendous amount of evidence that there was a crime. The only questionable evidence was Michael Cohen’s because he has a history of not telling the truth,” the woman said to Fox, saying that if she were on the jury, she would support a conviction.
“I would be very disappointed and surprised if there was an acquittal,” she said, adding that she was “very concerned” about the possibility of Trump winning re-election.
The jurors were released Thursday at 4:30 p.m. Earlier in the day, they asked Judge Juan Merchan to reread the deliberation instructions and rehear testimony from Michael Cohen and David Pecker.
Matteo Cina of Fox News contributed to this report.
