He also was asked whether he was directing his surrogates to speak on his behalf.
I do have a lot of surrogates and they are speaking very beautifully, Trump said.
But that has not stopped his backers from doing so.
Speaker Mike Johnson at the New York courthouse as Donald Trump speaks to the press on Tuesday.Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images
They are doing this intentionally to keep him here, to keep him off of the campaign trail.
He later out out a fundraising appeal headlined Live from President Trumps trial!
I guess hes not that concerned with teaching morality to our young people after all.
Sean Piccoli contributed to this report.
