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Donald Trump is making a campaign stop in Michigan amid an historic autoworker strike, but the former president will hold his rally at a nonunion shop – timed in an effort to draw attention away from the second debate among his Republican rivals seeking the party’s 2024 nomination for president.
The event also follows a series of legal blows in the multiple criminal and civil cases against him, with a New York judge shutting down his abilities to conduct business in the state after finding that he falsely inflated his wealth and assets as he built his business empire.
A federal judge overseeing a case involving his alleged attempts to overturn 2020 election results also has rejected his attempts to force her to recuse herself.
Following a year-long investigation and $250m lawsuit from the state’s attorney general, Tuesday’s ruling in the New York case found Mr Trump, his adult sons and chief associates provided fraudulent financial statements to lenders and insurers for about a decade to secure deals and financing.
On his Truth Social, Mr Trump claimed his “civil rights have been violated” and slammed what he called “a DERANGED” judge “doing the bidding of a completely biased and corrupt ‘prosecutor’”.
