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2 verified reports published on April 14, 2024.
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April 14 was the calm before the Manhattan trial storm, but only in the sense that the storm had already started and everyone could hear the thunder. Trump spent the day trying to look like the candidate in command; instead, the legal and political machinery around him kept making clear that he was headed into the week boxed in by his own record, his own rhetoric, and his own need to keep feeding both audiences at once.
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With jury selection in his New York hush-money case set to start the next day, Trump was still fighting the limits a judge had placed on his public attacks. The dispute had already become part legal fight, part campaign theater, and part reminder that the court—not Trump—was setting the rules.
Donald Trump’s April 8 states-rights abortion message drew quick criticism from anti-abortion figures, and his April 10 remarks calling Arizona’s near-total ban too far only sharpened the contradictions in his position.