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A high-ranking poll entry advisor for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential marketing campaign was charged with assault in Manhattan final week, the New York Police Division informed CNN.
Trent Pool, a advisor who works intently with the group coordinating the unbiased candidate’s poll entry effort, was arrested early Saturday morning final week on the Soho Grand Resort in Manhattan and charged with assault and felony obstruction of respiratory. A New York Metropolis police spokesperson informed CNN an unidentified 25-year-old girl stated that following a verbal dispute, Pool “wrapped his hand round her neck making it laborious for her to breathe after which struck her within the face with a closed fist, inflicting ache.” The girl declined medical consideration on the scene.
Pool was launched on bond later within the day on Saturday, Pool’s legal professional informed CNN. His first court docket look is scheduled for June. The arrest was first reported by Mediaite.
Kennedy marketing campaign spokesperson Stefanie Spear stated in an announcement to CNN, “Trent is a contractor. He tells us that the alleged incident by no means occurred.”
CNN reached out to Pool, who referred inquiries to his legal professional. Pool’s legal professional Gregory Esposito stated in an announcement to CNN, “Mr. Trent Pool is harmless of all prices and we stay up for demonstrating so in court docket.”
Pool has performed an vital function within the marketing campaign’s poll entry technique. He’s labored intently with Paul Rossi, the marketing campaign’s foremost poll entry lawyer who has led it by way of authorized challenges in quite a lot of states, and poll entry director Nick Brana to form technique in numerous states, a marketing campaign official informed CNN.
Pool’s agency, Accelevate 2020, joined the Kennedy marketing campaign in a federal lawsuit in Utah in search of to increase the state’s deadline for unbiased candidates to use for ballot access. Rossi has beforehand represented Pool previous to becoming a member of the Kennedy marketing campaign.
The Kennedy marketing campaign has paid Accelevate 2020 almost $390,000 for marketing campaign consulting, federal marketing campaign finance information present. Pool has helped incorporate skilled petition circulators into the marketing campaign’s signature gathering operation largely made up of volunteers, two sources conversant in the marketing campaign informed CNN.
American Values 2024, a brilliant PAC backing Kennedy, paid $1.1 million for poll entry work this yr to Public Enchantment LLC, a agency based by Pool and his brother, based on public information.
CNN has reached out to American Values 2024 for remark.