Woman arrested for disrupting Trump trial
The former US president says the attorney general is the one who should be arrested
Daily TribuneThe former US president says the attorney general is the one who should be arrested
disrupting Donald Trump's civil fraud trial after she approached the former United States president in the courtroom and saying she wanted to "assist him," a court spokesperson said.
The woman, who was not identified, was "safely escorted" out of the Manhattan courtroom by officers and has been charged with contempt and immediately placed on administration leave pending an investigation, spokesperson Lucian Chalfen said.
The woman "disrupted the proceedings," Chalfen said in a statement.
She was "stopped by court officers before she got near Mr. Trump or any of the attorneys or other litigants," the spokesperson said, adding that "none of the parties were ever in any danger."
Trump did not seem concerned by the incident, and appeared to only learn of it when speaking to reporters later.
"Who got arrested? We don't know anything about it," he said.
"You know who should be arrested?" he asked. "The attorney general should be arrested. For what she's doing."
New York's attorney general Letitia James has accused Trump, his sons Eric and Don Jr. and other executives of the Trump Organization of colossally inflating the value of their real estate assets in order to receive more favorable bank loans and insurance terms.
