Trump Decries Lack of Law and Order in New York Hours After Leaving His Criminal Trial in New York

Former President Donald Trump called into Fox News on Tuesday night and praised police action against anti-war protestors at Columbia University in New York while saying that “it should’ve never gotten to this.”

Students and others present have been demanding the university divest from Israel amid its ongoing war in Gaza in response to the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks.

Hours earlier and about eight miles from the school, Trump left a courtroom in Lower Manhattan where he is on trial after being indicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to conceal payments intended to cover up extramarital affairs before the 2016 election. In Washington, D.C. he has been federally indicted over his attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election, which he falsely claimed was rigged against him. He has also been indicted on state RICO charges in Georgia for his efforts at subverting the election results there. Finally, he has been indicted on federal charges in Florida for what the Department of Justice says was his willful retention of classified documents after leaving office and his attempt to obstruct their retrieval.

Trump has pleaded not guilty to all 88 criminal counts he faces.

As the NYPD was clearing Columbia University of protestors, including those who occupied Hamilton Hall, Trump called into Tuesday’s Hannity on Fox News and lamented the state of law and order on Columbia’s campus:

They’re doing a great disservice to the world, but they’re doing great disservice to our country. But when you look at New York in a state like this, but look at other cities. It’s not a lot different. It’s frankly worse in some places than it is right now in New York.

And I think New York’s finest, New York City’s finest have been incredible. The way they– it’s not over yet, but the way they walked and the way they climbed through that window. They were not afraid of anything and it looked like they’ve got it, maybe clamped down. But it should’ve never gotten to this and they should have done it a lot sooner than before they took over the building because it would’ve been easier if they were in tents rather than a building.

Trump added that the protestors had done “tremendous damage.”

Elsewhere during his call with Fox News, Trump reiterated his attacks on Democratic Jewish politicians.

“I’m watching Jewish politicians abandon Israel,” he said while slamming Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY).

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