
Donald Trump seems to have called in a team of his top allies to attack the legal system on his behalf, garnering a crowd of anti-judicial supporters, as Michael Cohen’s damning testimony in his criminal trial comes to a close.
Outside the courthouse Thursday afternoon, the former president — who faces charges for falsifying records for hush money payments made to sway the election — drew allegiance from a few of the usual suspects, as well as a Staten Island artist, Scott LoBaido, who released dozens of phallic balloons decorated with stickers depicting the likeness of special counsel Jack Smith, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, trial Judge Juan Merchan, and other MAGA legal enemies.