DONALD Trump turned up for jury duty in New York overnight and it was the spectacle everyone would expect, with about 100 reporters and television crews circling his black limousine.
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Outside of the courthouse after the first session, Trump signed autographs, spoke briefly to several reporters, and gave a thumbs up to a supporter shouting, “You the man”.
Trump’s remarks got here as his marketing campaign web site posted his program for “immigration reform”.
“Any assertion that Mr. Trump doesn’t take his civic responsibilities seriously is absolutely false and only being used as an attempt to discredit his stellar reputation”, he said in a statement.
While Trump is expected to report for jury duty just like every other American, his appearance makes the ordeal less than ordinary for other prospective jury members.
Trump’s plan is “going to get zero Democratic support and nearly no Republican support“. Scott Walker, who also released his immigration plan, said on Monday that his own proposal mirrors Trump’s.
During a recent interview with Sean Hannity, Trump started to lay out his policy issues including his plans to get Mexico to pay for the wall and his problems with Planned Parenthood.
“The wall will work”, he said when he arrived for jury duty in New York and a passer-by at the courthouse asked about the idea.
Trump, 69, sat in the jury room with some of the 172 potential jurors who came Monday to possibly serve on trials in civil lawsuits.
Mr Trump, who is leading the polls among 17 Republican candidates for president, waved, shook hands and fist-bumped bystanders as he walked up the steps. Upon returning to the jury assembly room, he took a selfie with an attorney he encountered and signed a sketch artist’s drawing.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, speaking in Charleston, South Carolina, on Monday, said he appreciates that Trump has a plan, but that the approximately 11 million undocumented immigrants now living in the U.S. need to be dealt with in a way that’s “realistic”. “They’re never going to select him“.
In celebrity-studded New York Metropolis, it’s commonplace for well-known names to be picked to point out up in potential jury swimming pools.
Trump did not elaborate on how he would define “good people“.
Yesterday was a rare break in Trump’s headline-grabbing, bombastic run for the Republican nomination for president, which saw him offer children free rides on his helicopter while in Iowa over the weekend.
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“Would you use an executive order to end birthright citizenship if you don’t have the votes in the Senate?” someone standing next to Trump shouted.
