Breaking free from a New York trial engineered by the Biden administration to keep him off the campaign trail, Republican candidate for president Donald Trump received a hero’s welcome in the South Bronx, a Democrat stronghold that saw 30,000 residents come out to greet him.
Trump ridiculed his opponent’s record and told the crowd that the only way Biden can win is through “Lawfare.” Coordinated by the White House, Democrat prosecutors have targeted Trump in four different jurisdictions in an unprecedented abuse of the legal system. “They’re not after me, they’re after you; I’m just standing in the way,” Trump said of his “Communist” opponents.
Designed to show his support among black and Hispanic voters and take the fight to Blue State New York, the rally featured former Senator Reuben Diaz, Sr., who announced his endorsement of the 45th President. Diaz shocked the Democrat establishment by apologizing for Judge Juan Merchant, a fellow Hispanic, for his handling of the New York trial.
“Mr. President, l am a Puerto Rican, a black Puerto Rican. I used to be a senator for 15 years; l used to be a city council member. As a Puerto Rican, as a Hispanic, l want to apologize to you for the conduct of Judge Juan Merchan. He has been used to destroy you, but we know better than that,” Diaz told Trump.
He went on to hurl a barb at Bronx Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat who staged a sparsely attended protest prior to Trump’s event. “As a minister, as president of the New York Hispanic Clergy Organization, l want to tell AOC: This morning, she intended to become a prophet, saying even God doesn’t want Trump in the Bronx because it’s going to rain. Madam Prophet AOC, you have become a false prophet. Look at what a beautiful day,” he said, pointing up at a clear blue sky. “That means that not only you guys want Trump in the Bronx, because we are going to measure that with the weather. I would say, humbly, that even God wants you in the Bronx.”
Part of a Rouge’s Gallery of Democrat judges and prosecutors following Biden orders to “Get Trump,” as famed legal scholar Allan Dershowitz put it,” Merchan refused defense motions to recuse himself after it was revealed that he is a Biden donor and his daughter has a lucrative business raising money for prominent Democrats by using Lawfare as a key element of their donor appeals. The judge, an immigrant from Columbia, put a gag order on Trump to keep him from talking about the conflicts and will go down in history for holding him in contempt for violating it.
In a speech that detailed some of his successes in his hometown of New York and his record as president, Trump highlighted a myriad of Biden failures, including the record inflation that is devastating minority communities, high interest rates, escalating crime, illegal immigration, the drug epidemic, the war in Ukraine and Gaza, and his use of the supposedly blind criminal justice system to attack political opponents.
“I’m here to declare that we are going to turn New York City around and we are going to do so very, very quickly,” Trump promised a crowd that has suffered under generations of Democrat rule. “We’re going to bring safety back to our streets; we’re going to bring success back to our schools. We’re going to bring prosperity back to every neighborhood. We are going to reduce taxes; we are going to bring businesses and big taxpayers back to New York. We’re going to bring back New York bigger and more beautiful than ever before, and that includes right here in the Bronx.”
Trump said he would work with New York Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul to help fulfill his agenda for the city. Just before the speech, the governor, who recently drew the ire of the black community by saying their children don’t know how to use computers, had her “Deplorable” moment when she disparaged Trump supporters in a cable news interview. Asked about Trump’s bid to win New York, Hochul stated, “Well, I’ll tell you what won’t make a difference at all, and that’s for Donald Trump to be a ringleader and invite all his clowns to a place like the Bronx.” More than 74 million Americans cast their vote for Trump in 2020, with 3.2 million coming from the Empire State.
The Trump Team shot back: “Kathy Hocul is just upset that President Trump is pulling crowds in her state that she could only dream of, and Democrats are in disarray because Americans, including Hispanics and Blacks, are waking up to the fact that Joe Biden and the Democrat Party have been using them for votes and ripping them off for decades.”
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg previously declined to prosecute Trump on the six-year-old case and only pursued it after an official in Biden’s Justice Department transferred to his office to head up the legal attack. On the campaign trail, Trump castigates Bragg for refusing to prosecute major offenses in a city that is experiencing a deadly crime wave.