Donald Trump says he boycotted last week’s arraignment in Georgia on election interference charges to protest in-court camera coverage of his upcoming trial.

The former president claimed in a fundraising email that he was infuriated by Fulton County judge Scott McAfee’s decision to allow all hearings and a possible trial to be broadcast on the court’s YouTube channel.

“Why would I fly down to Atlanta just to hear over a dozen FALSE CHARGES brought against me on live TV?” Mr Trump wrote in a message to supporters obtained by the New York Post pleading for more money.

  • @PaulDevonUK
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    1081 year ago

    Didn’t he say that he wanted cameras at some point?

    • muse
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      1131 year ago

      He also said if he lost the election we’d never hear from him again

      • @NounsAndWords
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        481 year ago

        And we all knew exactly what he’d say about the election results as soon as he said that…

        • @Plopp
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          321 year ago

          I thought we all knew he always says whatever he thinks he could benefit from at any give time, no matter if he believes it or not. No matter if it’s the exact opposite of what he said two seconds ago.

          • @[email protected]
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            21 year ago

            Covid was going to miraculously disappear like a miracle in 2020, we were gonna build a wall that Mexico would pay for (I’m ok w that one not panning out tho), very nice people on both sides, Antifa stormed the Capitol on 1/6, he can direct hurricanes to various states with a sharpie, so on and so forth.

    • @MicroWaveOP
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      1 year ago

      Trump said that only because he already knew that federal courts bar televising the hearings or recording them in any fashion. Source.

      The difference is that the Georgia case is being heard in a state court, which is not subject to this restriction.

    • @[email protected]
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      261 year ago

      Honestly, there is no point in paying attention to anything Trump says. Nothing has any relation to reality or the truth. You can only come away from that experience more ignorant than you went in.