Donald Trump has been making the most of his time in New York this week as the former president’s first criminal case is underway.
After day two of Trump’s hush money trial the presumptive Republican nominee visited the Harlem bodega where store clerk Jose Alba, 61, defended himself after being attacked by a violent customer in July 2022.
Alba was arrested and charged with second-degree murder after he stabbed the customer, Austin Simon, 35. Before that, Simon was captured on video going behind the counter and attacking him.
He was arrested and locked up on Rikers on a second-degree murder charge, which was dropped following an outpouring of support across the city. In September, Alba filed a wrongful arrest suit against the city seeking unspecified damages.
Trump was greeted by a crowd chanting, “Four more years!” in the Democrat stronghold of Manhattan.
“This is a very exciting time for me because the bodegas association invited me. And I respect them, and they respect me. They want law and order, they have tremendous crime, tremendous crime over there, stores are being robbed,” he said.
“New York’s a lot different. And we’ll work with the mayor. We will work with the governor. And we’ll bring a lot of federal money, but we have to straight out New York. And that includes crime,” he added.
He posted on Truth Social: “MAKE NEW YORK SAFE AGAIN!”
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