A bare breast and ‘civil war’: MAGA diehards showed up at Trump Tower - and it got weird
Wendy Sax was trying to cross Fifth Avenue in midtown Manhattan on Friday morning when she ran into a small group ofdiehard Trump supporters donning red caps and waving massive MAGA flags on the sidewalk across from Trump Tower.
Moments later, a Donald Trump impersonator turned down the street in a rickety limousine, waving to his faithful acolytes. Behind him was a pickup truck adorned with Trump-themed vinyl wrap and several flags – including the upside-down American flag – blasting Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA.”
“Motherf*****,” Sax muttered.
They were all part of the eccentric crew who flocked to Trump Tower on Friday morning as Trump held his first official press conference after being found guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records.
While Trump’s supporters caused chaos outside, waving a sea of American flags that made it difficult for pedestrians to pass by, the former president delivered a rambling address inside to a select group of reporters and allies. The now-convicted felon proclaimed his innocence just steps away from where he descended Trump Tower’s golden escalators to launch his 2016 campaign for president, and inside the building where he conspired to unlawfully influence that election’s outcome.
The scene outside Trump Tower was strange but mostly peaceful — save for a small skirmish between Trumpers and a protester with a sign supporting the guilty conviction. In one particularly shocking moment, Juliet Germanotta took out her bare breast and shoved it in the Trump critic’s face.
Germanotta, a Manhattan resident of 25 years, said she “wanted” Trump to be found guilty because it would help him in the polls and galvanize his supporters. She insisted that a “civil war” was possible if