Judge pauses trial for Trump son's graduation. Trump sneaks in a fundraiser too
Great news, MAGAs! Devoted family man Donald Trump will be allowed to attend his son Barron’s high school graduation after all! This is what y’all wanted, right? Even if Trump himself didn’t. In fact, what Trump really wanted to do the day of his son’s commencement was pull in some serious cash at a fundraiser, and so … that’s exactly what he’s doing. Maybe he thought no one would notice.
Weeks after Trump bitterly (and dishonestly) complained that Judge Juan Merchan, who’s presiding over Trump’s hush money trial in New York, was refusing to allow him to attend his son Barron’s graduation—even though a decision hadn’t yet been made—Merchan delivered the worst news Trump’s gotten since McDonald’s stopped cooking its fries in beef tallow: Court would be out of session on May 17 to allow Trump to attend the ceremony.
Trump is clearly delighted. So delighted, in fact, that he’s celebrating with a small coterie of his closest friends—i.e., anyone shameless and venal enough to spend $100,000 on a table within suck-up range of America’s most notorious sexual-assaulting, document-stealing insurrectionist. If Barron wants to see his dad—from a distance, of course—he can cough up 15 large for a loser-adjacent “State Host Table.”