Trump Fundraising Pitch Falsely Claims He Must Be in Court This Week When He Doesn’t Have to Be

Former President Donald Trump sent out a campaign blast on Sunday and falsely claimed that he was being “forced off the campaign trail” by two different courtroom appearances this week.

“In the final week leading up to the FIRST VOTE of the 2024 election, there’s nothing I’d rather be doing than spending every one of those days on the campaign trail speaking directly with voters like YOU,” Trump wrote, adding:

But sadly, Crooked Joe and the Radical Democrats have turned our once Free Republic into a Third World Marxist Dictatorship where ELECTION

INTERFERENCE is a now-daily occurrence.

TWICE in this final week, I will reportedly be forced off the campaign trail and into courtrooms for phony witch hunts in both New York and Washington, D.C.- the belly of the beast!

Trump’s message continued by asking for a donation to his campaign. The GOP frontrunner appeared to be referring to his planned appearances at a federal appeals court hearing in Washington, DC on Tuesday and Friday’s closing arguments in his New York civil fraud trial – neither of which is mandatory.

Politico’s Kyle Cheney first pointed out Trump’s inaccurate claim, writing on X, “Trump falsely telling supporters in a fundraising pitch that he’s being “forced” off the campaign trail by two court hearings, neither of which are mandatory.”

Fox News host Trey Gowdy also discussed Trump’s plan to appear at the DC hearing with anchor Martha MacCallum on Monday.

“The only reason to go to a hearing at a court of appeals is if your Ambien prescription has run out,” Gowdy joked in a conversation that did not mention Trump’s fundraising message.

“It is the most boring thing in the world. There is no jury. There are no witnesses. It’s an appellate court. It’s a bunch of smart judges asking really smart lawyers a bunch of esoteric questions. So, look, I’m not the scheduler for President Trump. He can go wherever he wants to go. I don’t think going to an appellate oral argument is your best use of time,” Gowdy added, concluding:

Going to a jury trial where the jury can see you, that may be smart, but going in front of three judges where they’re going to argue the most esoteric points of law, I don’t get it. But, you know, the judges are not going to be intimidated by his presence, nor would they be offended by his lack of presence. I just — I get going to a jury trial. I don’t get going to oral argument before a court of appeals.

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