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Ahead of entering Manhattan tribunal connected Tuesday, former President Donald Trump slammed anti-Israel protests raging connected assemblage campuses arsenic a "disgrace" while pinning blasted connected President Biden.
"What's going connected astatine nan assemblage level … Columbia, NYU and others is simply a disgrace. And it's really connected Biden," Trump said Tuesday greeting extracurricular nan courtroom.
"He's sewage nan incorrect words. He doesn't cognize who he's backing. And it's a mess. And if this were me, they'd beryllium aft me, they'd beryllium aft maine truthful much, but they're trying to get him a pass. And what's going connected is simply a ugliness to our country. And it's each Biden's fault, and everybody knows it. He's sewage nary message, he's sewage nary compassion and doesn't cognize what he's doing," Trump continued, adding Biden is the "worst president successful nan history of our country."
Antisemitism has intensified connected nan campuses of immoderate of nan country’s astir elite universities successful caller days, including protesters connected Columbia’s field saying Jewish students were Hamas’s "next targets" amid ongoing demonstrations. More than 100 students were arrested connected Columbia’s field past week, while dozens much were arrested connected Yale’s and NYU’s campuses this week. Some students person besides established encampments connected field demanding their schools wholly divest from Israel.
Former US President Donald Trump speaks to members of nan media astatine Manhattan criminal tribunal successful New York, US, connected Monday, April 15, 2024. Jury action beings Monday successful Trumps criminal proceedings wherever he faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records arsenic portion of an alleged strategy to soundlessness claims of extramarital intersexual encounters during his 2016 statesmanlike campaign. (Angela Weiss/AFP/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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A rabbi astatine Columbia moreover warned Jewish students to time off field owed to nan antisemitism, while a professor astatine nan assemblage told Fox Digital this play that anti-Israel field groups person shape-shifted into becoming an "actual panic organization" during nan caller protests.
Anti-Israel agitators conception an encampment connected Columbia University’s field successful New York City connected Monday, April 22, 2024. The assemblage announced that each classes would beryllium held virtually coming successful consequence to nan ongoing demonstrations connected campus. (Peter Gerber)
"Al-Qassam you make america proud, termination different worker now," protesters connected Columbia's field were seen chanting complete nan weekend, referring to nan subject helping violent statement Hamas.
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Biden and nan White House has condemned nan protests, including connected Monday erstwhile he came nether occurrence for equating nan antisemitic protests pinch group who "don’t understand" nan Palestinians.
Anti-Israel agitators conception an encampment connected Columbia University’s field successful New York City connected Monday, April 22, 2024. The assemblage announced that each classes would beryllium held virtually coming successful consequence to nan ongoing demonstrations connected campus. (Peter Gerber)
"I condemn nan antisemitic protests. That’s why I person group up a programme to woody pinch that. I besides condemn those who don't understand what's going connected pinch nan Palestinians," Biden told reporters Monday.
Trump continued successful his comments Tuesday that Biden is "no friend of Israel" aliases nan "Arab world."
Former President Donald Trump leaves Trump Tower connected his measurement to Manhattan criminal court, Monday, April 15, 2024, successful New York. The hush money proceedings of erstwhile President Donald Trump originates Monday pinch assemblage selection. It's a singular infinitesimal for American history arsenic nan first criminal proceedings of a erstwhile U.S. commandant successful chief. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
"It each starts pinch Joe Biden. The signals he puts retired are truthful bad. And I tin show you he's nary friend of Israel, that's for sure. And he's nary friend of nan Arab world either," Trump said Tuesday greeting extracurricular nan courtroom.
President Joe Biden was precocious grilled by The Washington Post for each nan embellished stories he has told audiences complete his career. (Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
"He wants to return for illustration a mediate ground. And oftentimes that doesn't work, but it's surely not moving here. But what he's done to Israel is wantonness them, and he's trying to beryllium arsenic bully arsenic he tin to nan different side," Trump continued.
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The 45th president is successful Manhattan for nan 2nd week of his proceedings involving 34 counts of allegedly falsifying business records successful nan first degree. He pleaded not blameworthy to each charges.
Prosecutor Matthew Colangelo makes opening statements arsenic erstwhile U.S. President Donald Trump watches pinch his lawyer Todd Blanche earlier Justice Juan Merchan during Trump's criminal proceedings connected charges that he falsified business records to conceal money paid to soundlessness porn prima Stormy Daniels successful 2016, successful Manhattan authorities tribunal successful New York City, U.S. April 22, 2024 successful this courtroom sketch. (REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg)
The charges were brought by nan Manhattan District Attorney's agency successful relationship to Trump’s erstwhile individual lawyer Michael Cohen paying erstwhile pornographic character Stormy Daniels $130,000 up of nan 2016 predetermination to allegedly quiet her claims of an extramarital affair. Trump has denied having an matter pinch Daniels.
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Prosecutors allege that nan Trump Organization reimbursed Cohen and fraudulently logged nan payments arsenic ineligible expenses. Prosecutors are moving to beryllium that Trump falsified records pinch an intent to perpetrate aliases conceal a 2nd crime, which is simply a felony.
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The lawsuit kicked disconnected successful earnest connected Monday, aft nan tribunal spent past week selecting and seating 12 jurors and six alternates to nan panel. Tuesday will see a proceeding connected nan prosecution's petition that Trump beryllium held successful contempt for violating a gag order, which bans him from speaking publically astir witnesses and family members of tribunal officials, arsenic good arsenic continued grounds for nan trial's first witness, erstwhile media patient David Pecker.
