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Former President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that his felony trial in Manhattan has prevented him from campaigning in key swing states.
“I must be proper now in Pennsylvania, in Florida, in lots of different states, North Carolina, Georgia – campaigning,” Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, instructed reporters exterior the courtroom on the second day of the trial in April. He made similar feedback within the courthouse hallway on subsequent days, saying that, if not for the trial he baselessly blamed on President Joe Biden, he was “purported to be” in Ohio, New Hampshire and South Carolina.
It’s definitely doable that Trump would have been campaigning in all of these states if there was no trial. However a evaluation of his actions over the trial’s first 4 weeks reveals that he has completed little marketing campaign journey, and held few public marketing campaign occasions, on days off from court docket. As a substitute, he has spent most of his 12 court-free days out of voters’ view at his properties in New York, New Jersey and Florida.
And he didn’t use any of these 12 court-free days to go to Pennsylvania, Georgia, South Carolina, Ohio or New Hampshire, states he asserted the trial was stopping him from visiting. (He’s scheduled to go to Ohio for a fundraiser on Might 15.)
No public occasions on most free days
Trump’s trial will not be in session on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays, and the decide additionally scheduled one Monday off in late April. As of this Saturday, Might 11, that left Trump with 12 court-free days to do as he happy, in comparison with 15 days the place he was required in court docket, within the 27 days starting with the opening of jury selection on April 15.
Trump held no public occasions on seven of the 12 court-free days. And it was no public occasions on eight of the 12 days in the event you don’t rely his one-minute-long look for the cameras previous to a non-public assembly with the president of Poland at Trump Tower in New York Metropolis.
Trump has visited few swing states because the trial started
Trump has completed some marketing campaign journey in the course of the trial.
He held marketing campaign rallies within the swing states of Wisconsin and Michigan on one court-free Wednesday in May, and he booked a weekend April rally within the swing state of North Carolina that was called off at the last minute because of severe weather.
(He attended a closed-door fundraiser within the state earlier within the day.) He is scheduled to carry a rally on Saturday afternoon in New Jersey, which has for 3 a long time been a Democratic stronghold in presidential elections, and he appeared in May at a Formula One race in Miami.
Trump additionally made campaign-style appearances in Democratic-dominated New York Metropolis earlier than or after three court appearances. And he has turned the hallway exterior the Manhattan courtroom right into a de facto campaigning venue, repeatedly chatting with media cameras earlier than and after sitting in court docket.
However he has let the vast majority of the 12 off days move with out doing any public marketing campaign occasions. As a substitute, he has spent among the time golfing at his Bedminster club in New Jersey, attending a Republican Nationwide Committee fundraiser at his Mar-a-Lago membership and residence in Florida, attending a Mar-a-Lago dinner for people who bought large numbers of his “NFT” digital trading cards, and making phone calls and holding meetings.
His full itinerary on the off days will not be identified. Here’s a listing displaying how he’s identified to have spent his time from the opening day of the trial, April 15, till Might 11.
April 15: Courtroom
April 16: Courtroom (made look at New York Metropolis bodega afterward)
April 17: Time without work court docket. No public occasions, however met with Polish President Andrzej Duda at Trump Tower and appeared on digital camera for lower than a minute
April 18: Courtroom
April 19: Courtroom
April 20: Time without work court docket. Attended fundraiser in North Carolina and deliberate to talk at a NC rally that was referred to as off on account of climate
April 21: Time without work court docket. No public occasions
April 22: Courtroom
April 23: Courtroom
April 24: Time without work court docket. No public occasions; golfed at Bedminster
April 25: Courtroom (made look at New York Metropolis development web site beforehand)
April 26: Courtroom
April 27: Time without work court docket. No public occasions
April 28: Time without work court docket. No public occasions
April 29: Time without work court docket. No public occasions
April 30: Courtroom
Might 1: Time without work court docket. Spoke at marketing campaign rallies in Wisconsin and Michigan
Might 2: Courtroom (made look at New York Metropolis fireplace station afterward)
Might 3: Courtroom
Might 4: Time without work court docket. No public occasions; attended Republican Nationwide Committee fundraising luncheon at Mar-a-Lago
Might 5: Time without work court docket. Appeared at Components One race in Miami
Might 6: Courtroom
Might 7: Courtroom
Might 8: Time without work court docket. No public occasions; attended dinner with NFT consumers at Mar-a-Lago
Might 9: Courtroom
Might 10: Courtroom
Might 11: Time without work court docket. Scheduled to carry marketing campaign rally in New Jersey
CNN’s Kate Sullivan contributed to this text.