The judicial act of reading the 34 criminal charges of forgery to bribe the porn actress Stormy Daniels with 130,000 dollars was for Donald Trump a "horrible" experience for obvious reasons but also "wonderful" due to the "incredible" behavior of the staff of the Manhattan courthouses where the arrest and indictment took place last Tuesday.
Because "people were crying" and "asked me for forgiveness" while he was drinking because "he understood what was happening," said the former president in his first interview since then, broadcast on Tuesday night on the nightly prime time program from Fox News ultra host Tucker Carlson.
And what was really going on in the New York courts? Trump gave a very predictable explanation: he was being charged as a result of a dark operation to instrumentalize US justice, which, according to him, was turned into a "political weapon" by the Democrats. "What a mess! What a mess!" he cried. And he called the cause of "Soviet process."
"When I went to the court, which is also a prison in a certain sense," the Republican leader started, "they searched me... and I will tell you that people were crying; people who work there and professionally deal with murderers and see everyone," he said. He added dramatically: "It's a hard, hard place and they were crying. They were actually crying. They said they were sorry."
It so happens that the conversation with the star presenter of Fox, announced as a "historic interview" and broadcast on a deferred basis, was to be held and broadcast weeks after it emerged, as Carlson confessed to his colleagues, in a text message, his "passionate hatred" of Trump when he had just lost the 2020 elections and insisted on denouncing a fool, which he insists on continuing to do despite being shown to be a lie.
On Tuesday night, Carlson was at all times complacent with the former president, who for his part treated him with great familiarity and camaraderie. An interview between friends, he would say.
