Trump Blending Legal Battles & Campaign

January 18, 2024 5:04 am

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is cramming campaigning and court into a single day. That led him to be more than two hours late for a rally in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, after he spent the day in court in New York. Trump held a press conference in Manhattan complaining the judge presiding over his defamation trial was biased. Trump has long built his Republican primary campaign around his legal woes. He claims he’s being persecuted by Democrats and says he has done nothing wrong. But Wednesday’s epic day showed the way his many legal woes will bleed into his campaign appearances.