Chaos outside the courthouse as Trump flasher rips sign out of protester’s hands
Chaos briefly erupted across from the Manhattan courthouse where jurors in Donald Trump’s hush money trial were deliberating Thursday when a supporter of the former president’s snatched signs out of a protester’s hands.
Juliet Germanotta, a pro-Trump activist — who flashed his motorcade on Wednesday — yelled “Transsexuals for Trump!” as she grabbed the “Do you hear Trump lying?” signs from the woman protesting inside Collect Pond Park.
“Knock her down! Get out of here, b—h!” another Trump fan yelled at the sign-holder as the two grappled.
Germanotta was spotted flinging the signs to the ground and grabbing the woman’s bag.
The protester shoved Germanotta off her before cops separated them.
They were spotted at opposite sides of the park after the fracas.
Germanotta — a self-described “sexy, 42-year-old transsexual who likes Trump” — was among some 20 supporters, including New York City’s famed Times Square Naked Cowboy, who showed up outside the lower Manhattan courthouse to back the presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee.
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“If Trump is found guilty, it would be great because his numbers would go up,” Germanotta said. “More people would see how this political witch hunt that’s been going on for years and years is an injustice.”
Naked Cowboy Robert Burck strummed his guitar while singing a ditty about the former president, saying, “Indict him, convict him, throw him in jail, no matter what you do Donald Trump will still prevail, and that sounds like a good idea to me.”
One man in the crowd held a sign saying, “The 3 greatest US presidents: George Washington, John F. Kennedy, Donald Trump” and another person’s sign featured Trump’s mugshot and said, “Never Surrender.”
A woman from Monterey, Calif., was clutching a Bible and chanting in tongues across from the 100 Centre Street courthouse, saying, “God stands with Trump. God has delivered people out of jail.”
Germanotta was arrested in August 2020 for allegedly defacing a Black Lives Mural and she admitted to being a passenger in a car that plowed through a group of BLM protesters in Times Square a month later. Charges weren’t filed at the time for the driving incident.
