A Tale of Two Trumpworlds – By Heather Tal Murphy (Slate) / Apr 5 2023
At the former president’s Bronx golf course, the arraignment may as well have not been taking place.
On Tuesday afternoon, for the first time ever, a former U.S. president exited his vehicle and entered a criminal court to surrender on a grand jury indictment. NPR, CNBC, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and pretty much every other news site in the United States offered a steady drumbeat of live Donald Trump updates. Trump had entered the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse. Trump was being processed. Trump was pleading not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in connection with hush-money payments during his 2016 presidential campaign. This was a “pivotal moment in U.S. history,” observed an analyst on CNN.
The feeling was quite different at Trump Golf Links at Ferry Point in the Bronx, 1 of 20 Trump-branded golf courses throughout the world. There, as CBS, Fox News, and numerous other TV stations aired footage of Trump’s motorcade pulling up to court, two huge TVs in the clubhouse bar broadcast golf. And more golf.
“I think it’s just business as usual in the country,” said a developer in a blue vest drinking a beer at that bar.
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