The former president of the United States is a free man.

He can go anywhere he chooses.

And today he chose to attend his civil fraud trial in New York City.

This is weaponization of justice. This is something that nobody has ever seen to this

extent. It's called election interference. It's a sad day for our country that a thing like this can take place.

I'm sitting in a courthouse instead of being in Iowa where I should be.

Again, no one compelled Mr. Trump to be in that courthouse today. He could have gone to Iowa.

I mean, he has a private plane. He could have gone to both Iowa and New York if he had wanted.

But Donald Trump came to New York

because he likes to use his trials

as soap boxes for his presidential campaign.

And the biggest one of all, the biggest soapbox of them all,

is the federal trial over alleged 2020 election subversion,

which is set to take place in March of next year,

right as campaign season is in full swing.

And that would set up a dynamic, a split screen, if you will, that no one in this country

has ever seen before.

The New York Times today reports that Trump's DC trial would almost certainly fuse

Trump's role as a criminal defendant with his role as a presidential candidate. It would transform the steps of

the federal courthouse into a site for daily impromptu campaign rallies and

it would place the legal case and the race for the White House on a direct collision course,

each one increasingly capable of shaping the other.

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