'Wack pack': Questions swirl over who’s funding 'weird' Trump trial surrogates
Trump trial watchers are raising questions over the increasingly large number of elected Republicans and big-name allies showing up at the Manhattan Criminal Courts building to show support for the indicted ex-president, often giving angry speeches before the cameras, or standing behind the defendant in the background as he delivers his rants to reporters.
They are mostly men, and often dressed just as Donald Trump does: blue suit, white shirt, red tie.
Public Notice founder Aaron Rupar on Monday observed, “They’re all in Trump costumes again. how cute.”
Questions about their “uniforms,” and more importantly, who is funding and organizing their travel, are being raised.
Media critic Jennifer Schulze, a former Chicago Sun-Times executive producer, WGN news director, and adjunct college professor of journalism, commented: “The Trump uniforms angle is flying way too low beneath the mainstream news radar. The same is true for how this weird courtroom guest star show is being organized & financed.”
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Filmmaker and podcaster Andy Ostroy declared, “I’m sorry, but all these #Trump capos showing up each day at the trial dressed exactly the same as The Godfather in blue suit and red tie is not only creepy AF but is a chilling foreshadowing of the fascist uniform-wearing government they’re jonesin’ to be a part of…”
Talk radio host Joan Esposito also asked who’s paying for these appearances: “Is the trump campaign paying for these surrogates to fly to & from nyc? If not, who is?”
Political commentator Bob Cesca remarked, “Trump’s fanboys are like the Wack Pack from the Stern show circa 1990.”
Monday’s star surrogates included South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, an election denier who had supported overturning the 2020 presidential election and signed onto what has been called a “false and frivolous” lawsuit attempting to overturn the results.
Also, Republican U.S. Reps. Eric Burlison, Andrew Clyde, Mary Miller, and Keith Self. And John Coale from the Trump-aligned America First Policy Institute, attorney Alan Dershowitz, Trump attorney and GOP attorney general candidate Will Scharf, convicted felon and Trump pardon recipient Bernie Kerik, Trump loyalist and former Trump administration official Kash Patel, and others.
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Op-ed columnist Terry Cowgill last week called them “manservants…standing at attention like automatons.”
“Scary and very very strange” was actress and activist Mia Farrow’s observation last week.
Vanity Fair’s Molly Jong-Fast, an MSNBC political analyst, last week asked, “Why did they all wear the same outfit?”
The Biden campaign was only too happy to post this video last week:
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