Trump returns to campaign trail for first time since hush money trial began
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Former President Donald Trump will make his foray back onto the campaign trail Wednesday for the first time since his New York criminal hush money trial began in earnest last month. Trump will spend his one allotted weekday out of the courtroom to host rallies in Wisconsin and Michigan, two critical battleground states he won in 2016 and then lost in 2020.
Former President Donald Trump will make his foray back onto the campaign trail Wednesday for the first time since his New York criminal hush money trial began in earnest last month. Trump will spend his one allotted weekday out of the courtroom hosting rallies in Wisconsin and Michigan, two critical battleground states he won in 2016 but lost in 2020. As the general election rematch between Trump and President Joe Biden heats up, both states are considered pivotal on the path to White House. Despite Trump and his campaign’s insistence that the former resident would take advantage of every second he wasn’t tethered to the courtroom, in the more than two weeks since the trial began, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee has rarely used his days off from court to host political events. The absence from the trail hasn’t been entirely within his control. His most recent planned major campaign stop in Wilmington, North Carolina, on April 20 was canceled at the 11th hour due to severe storm weather. Trump, who is required to be present in court throughout his trial every weekday, except Wednesday, has instead spent much of his free time attending closed-door fundraisers, taking meetings and hosting dinners at Trump Tower. Last Wednesday, the former president escaped the city to play golf at his Bedminster, New Jersey, club, and spent this past weekend at his Mar-a-Lago home for his wife Melania Trump’s birthday. The campaign has arranged two stops with remarks around New York City, before and after court, but the majority of Trump’s politicking has been done to the cameras set up outside the courtroom. That hasn’t stopped Trump from routinely lamenting that Judge Juan Merchan, who is overseeing the case, is keeping him off the trail.
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