Trump Endorses Trucker Marketing campaign to Cease Deliveries to NYC in Protest of Fraud Ruling
A professional-Trump trucker and right-wing influencer who goes by the deal with Chicago Ray posted a video to X, previously Twitter, on Friday night time claiming that he has spoken to “no less than” 10 truckers who will “begin refusing hundreds” headed for New York Metropolis. Ray needs truckers to cease deliveries to town within the wake of a New York courtroom ruling ordering the former president to pay $355 million in damages after he and the Trump Group have been discovered chargeable for committing monetary fraud. And Trump helps their efforts.
“Such an honor to have so many Nice Patriots on the facet of FREEDOM!” Trump wrote on his social media platform, Fact Social, celebrating the trucker marketing campaign on Saturday night time. “Joe Biden’s Unfair and Harmful Weaponization of Regulation Enforcement is a severe menace to Democracy. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
“Trump simply posted my video and film on his Fact Social account, fairly fucken cool,” Ray posted Sunday alongside a screenshot of Trump’s publish.
In Ray’s unique video, which Trump additionally posted, Ray says, “I’ve been on the radio speaking to drivers for concerning the final hour… and I’ve talked to no less than ten drivers… And so they’re going to start out refusing hundreds to New York Metropolis beginning on Monday.”
“I don’t know the way far throughout the nation that is, or what number of truckers are gonna begin denying hundreds going to New York Metropolis,” Ray added, “however I’ll let you know what, you fuck round and discover out, OK? We’re bored with you motherfucking leftists fucking with Trump.”
Ray went on to assert with out proof that 95 to 96 % of truckers are for Trump and that the prosecution of Trump is “election interference.”
Along with imposing a hefty high-quality in opposition to Trump, Decide Arthur Engoron on Thursday banned the previous president “from serving as an officer or director of any New York company or different authorized entity in New York for a interval of three years.” And he ordered Trump’s sons, Don Jr. and Eric, to pay $4 million every in fines. Trump is anticipated to enchantment. Weeks earlier, Trump suffered one other defeat in a New York courtroom when a jury ordered him to pay $83 million in defamation-related damages to E. Jean Carroll, whom Trump sexually assaulted within the ’90s.
Whether or not the truckers’ marketing campaign will develop giant sufficient to end in any disruption of the movement of products into New York stays to be seen. In the meanwhile, we solely have Ray’s claims, though his video obtained greater than six million views as of early Sunday afternoon. Ray promised to present followers an replace on Monday.
In 2022, following mass protests by truckers in Canada in opposition to vaccine mandates, American truckers drove into to Washington, D.C., in a “People’s Convoy,” to voice their opposition to Covid-19 mandates — although their efforts largely fell flat.
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