The senator joined Trump in the courthouse for the trial.
Senator Rick Scott, R-Fla., speaks outside Manhattan criminal court, May 9, 2024, in New York. Scott attended former President Donald Trump's criminal trial Thursday. | Joseph Frederick/APMIAMI — Sen. Rick Scott wants America to know: He’s standing by his friend and fellow Florida Republican Donald Trump during his criminal trial.
On Thursday morning, Scott drove with Trump from Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue down to the courthouse in Lower Manhattan, where the presumptive GOP nominee is on trialthree hours into the trial. “I’m here because I have known Donald Trump a long time,” he said. “I knew him before I was governor. I consider him a friend. And what he is going through is just despicable.”
“It’s not just a political alliance,” Hartline said. “It’s a genuine friendship that has been built long before either of them were in office.” Trump complained last week that the streets near the courthouse were too blocked off, preventing his supporters from protesting. Since then, roughly three weeks into the trial, he’s been“The friendship and support of Sen. Scott is important to President Trump and to the campaign,” Trump campaign senior adviser Brian Hughes said. “When Biden and the Democrats are attacking you every minute of every day, it is always good to have strong friends and supporters at your side.
On Thursday, Scott insisted that, to him, the case was personal, not only because of his relationship with Trump but because he saw similarities to his own life. Outside the courthouse, as well as early in the morning in a Fox & Friends appearance, Scott raised the fact that he opposed Hillary Clinton’s health care reform proposal in the 1990s. He then accused the Justice Department of going after the hospital chain he led, Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp., as an act of retribution.
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