Joe Piscopo Showed Up At Trial To Support Trump And He Explains Why

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for attending Donald Trump’s hush money trial this week, explained to Fox Business on Wednesday why he showed up. (Watch the video below.)

Piscopo, now a conservative radio host on AM 970 in the New York City area, gushed to host Neil Cavuto that it was all about “loyalty” after Trump granted him a brief interview on the day of his Wildwood, N.J., rally earlier this month.

Piscopo said he was flattered by the response of “President Trump” and his team, citing minute details of the attention he got from the four-time-indicted Republican candidate in the VIP tent.

“I’m Italian,” Piscopo said. “I don’t forget loyalty, you know what I’m saying? I’m telling you, I don’t forget these things. So now when this trial started to unfold and I saw it… we still don’t know what the crime is… I said I’m gonna show up just to show respect to President Trump. That’s all that was ― a sign of friendship! I’ve known him a hundred years and we’ve always had a nice relationship so I wanted to show loyalty because there’s none of that anymore.”

We’ll take the liberty of reminding the former comedian that Trump is accused of illegally