An apparently small crowd gathered in Staten Island, New York to protest Donald Trump’s felony conviction.
Read: The Republican Presumptive Nominee for President is A Convicted Felon
Let’s watch some videos.
Here’s the one Trump posted:
🚨President Trump just posted this on his Truth Social
“Thanks Staten Island.”
Crowd chants “TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP” 🇺🇸
Everyone loves Trump!
Vote for Trump! Save America! #Trump2024 pic.twitter.com/pOPlm6meOk
— AJ Huber (@Huberton) June 2, 2024
Here are some other views that are less misleading:
Speaker at Staten Island rally to protest Trump’s sentence says he has been arrested many times and has always respected his prosecutors and judges, but he has no respect for those in Trump’s case. pic.twitter.com/GhoKfSli4M
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 2, 2024
The Staten Island rally to protest Trump’s verdict looks, sounds and smells exactly what you think a Staten Island rally to protest Trump’s verdict would look, sound and smell. pic.twitter.com/K9P8aQtn6B
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 2, 2024
Trump and his supporters have confined their small crowds to small areas. It’s almost certain that Trump has supporters who will claim that thousands and thousands of his supporters were there, but the reality is that similar events in similar spaces usually draw hundreds of people, not thousands.
Staten Island is a reliably Republican area, so if a crowd were to show up in the New York area to protest Trump’s conviction, it would be there.
Rather than being a show of strength, the Staten Island rally, which featured an appearance by Rudy Giuliani, showed Donald Trump’s weakness, and his supporters appear to care little about his beliefs.
