Protesters Shouted Down MAGA Lawmakers Outside Trump Trial Courthouse: ‘Go Home Carpetbagging Fools’

A crowd of anti-Donald Trump protesters repeatedly shouted down a group of MAGA lawmakers outside of a lower Manhattan courthouse while a press briefing was taking place. 

Last week, several of the former president’s allies made an appearance to rail against Trump’s prosecution in his New York hush money trial and emphasized their devotion to him.

The group included South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, former New York police commissioner Bernie Kerik, ex-Trump administration official Kash Patel, Trump senior adviser Jason Miller and Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Georgia).

When Trump’s supporters gathered to talk with the press and deliver their statements of support for the former president, protesters in the crowd jeered at and heckled them.

The police tried to keep the protesters at bay, but their sounds drowned out the MAGA lawmakers from declaring support for Trump. 

“I wanted this country to understand that prosecutors around the country are calling the sham trial exactly what it is: a sham trial,” Wilson stated at the beginning of the briefing while the crowd jeered at him. 

“When I was the prosecutor in South Carolina, I was taught that a real prosecutor doesn’t prosecute people,” he added. “They prosecute conduct. What we’re seeing today is the prosecution of a person because of who he is, not what he has alleged to do. What’s happening today is a travesty of judges – justice,” the South Carolina attorney general claimed. “They’re ignoring the rule of law.”

“The people’s chief witness – you have trouble finding a single person he has actually told the truth to,” Wilson stated.

As Wilson was speaking, one protester could be heard yelling, “Go home, you carpetbagging fools.”

Even though it was hard to hear what Patel had to say due to the clanging of a cowbell and the crowd chanting, “Kash Patel, Go To Hell,” he still stated that “after six weeks of unconstitutional trial, we have finally found a crime.”

“Michael Cohen admitted on the witness stand just this morning to six different felonies of stealing Donald Trump’s money,” he shared. “After six weeks of trial, we finally have a crime. We also have a victim. That victim is Donald J. Trump. Michael Cohen admitted under oath to structuring transactions illegally and stealing tens of thousands of dollars from Donald Trump. What’s even worse from a constitutional perspective is that the U.S. attorney’s office for the southern district of New York knew about Cohen’s crimes for six years.”

While Kerik was speaking, protestors made him barely audible as they chanted at him and called him a “bald-headed bigot.”

“Now I tell you,” Clyde said to the crowd as they chanted at him. “After being all morning in this courtroom, it’s pretty evident to me that [Judge Juan Merchan] is very one-sided. He’s conflicting. This particular judge also has a daughter that is making money off of fundraising for Democrats – off of this particular proceeding.” 

“You know what needs to happen is this particular judicial type system needs to be defunded, and I think one of the best ways to do it is to prevent the funding – the federal funding – any federal funding – all federal funding from going to – to this New York system that is prosecuting a federal candidate for president,” he argued.

Olivia Nuzzi, the Washington correspondent for New York Magazine, mentioned in an X post she created that Miller “chuckled when one protester yelled at the group, ‘Where do you buy your suits, Dictators R Us?'”

During a statement outside of the Manhattan courthouse on May 13, Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) criticized the hush money case prosecutors for “disrespecting” Trump by calling him “Mr. Trump” and not “President Trump.”

He called the courtroom “the most depressing thing” he had “ever been in” and complained that “the mental anguish is trying to be pushed on Republican candidate for the president of the United States this year.”

In late May, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said in an interview with MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle that Biden should have pardoned the former president on the numerous federal charges against him.

He stated that he would do this because “it’s not going to get resolved before the election, it’s not going to have an impact before the election, and frankly, the country doesn’t want to go through prosecuting a former president.”