Woman arrested after trying to get close to Trump at New York trial; she says she's a supporter
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A woman has been arrested after standing up at former President Donald Trump's New York civil fraud trial and walking toward the front of the courtroom, where he was sitting.
A spectator at Donald Trump's civil fraud trial was arrested Wednesday after standing up in the middle of testimony and walking toward the front of the courtroom where the former president sat.
The woman expressed a desire to aid Trump, and the court system said that neither he nor anyone else at the trial was ever in danger. The ex-president and 2024 GOP front-runner showed no reaction in court and later told reporters he wasn't aware of the episode that had unfolded behind him.
"Who got arrested?" Trump asked. "We didn't know anything about it."
The woman, later identified as a court system employee, retreated after a court officer told her to return to her seat. A short time later, officers escorted her out and arrested her on a contempt charge for disrupting a court proceeding, court spokesperson Lucian Chalfen said.
Chalfen said the woman had been yelling out to Trump that she wanted to help him, though reporters in the courtroom did not hear her raise her voice. She was later heard screaming in the courthouse lobby as officers removed her from the building.
Outside the courtroom, the woman was seen on an NBC camera telling court officers: "You're scaring me, and I have a right to be here. I'm an American citizen, and I'm also a court employee. I'm also just here to support Donald Trump."
She went on to say that she had been "peacefully watching this proceeding" and had complied when a court officer told her not to cause "any more problems."
