Trump Floats Conspiracy Theory ‘They’ Are Keeping ‘Freezing’ New York Courthouse Cold ‘On Purpose’

Former President Donald Trump floated a new conspiracy theory before walking into court on Friday, speculating that “they” were keeping the room where he is being tried cold “on purpose.”

Trump told the press that he thought “yesterday went very well,” even arguing that “it should be over, the case is over.”

“You heard what was said and the case should be over, but you’ll have to make that determination,” he added before attacking Judge Juan Merchan, whom he called “the most highly conflicted judge I’ve ever seen.”

Eventually, he got around to his new plea for justice at the thermostat.

“So we have another day of court in a freezing courthouse — it’s very cold in there, on purpose, I believe,” began Trump. “They don’t seem to be able to get the temperature up. It shouldn’t be that complicated, but we have a freezing courthouse and that’s fine. That’s just fine. Let ’em keep handing it out. There’s a rigged trial. Thank you very much.”

On a recent episode of The Bulwark Podcast, New York Magazine‘s Olivia Nuzzi remarked, “It is really cold in there [the courtroom] in his [Trump’s] defense. He keeps complaining about it, he complained about it on Tuesday again when he was speaking to the press outside the courtroom.”

She went on to provide an explanation for the uncomfortable temperature.

“It is very cold, but it’s a very old building and when, last week, I believe, when his lawyers complained and they asked if they could just raise the temperature by one degree, it was explained to them that no, this is an old building, if you raise it by one degree, it’ll like raise by 20 degrees and then we’ll all be sweating and you don’t want that,” noted Nuzzi. “And the first day that it was reported that he had fallen asleep, it happened to be, I believe, pretty hot in that courtroom. I wasn’t there that day. So, if I were him, I’d want it to be cold so I could stay kind of alert.”

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