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On the outskirts of the courthouse, Trump’s followers deflate after the verdict
The followers of former President Donald Trump (2017-2021) throughout the day maintained an aggressive attitude at the gates of the courthouse in New York and led several altercations with other protesters of the opposite sign. But curiously they deflated when the tycoon’s guilty verdict was known.
Throughout the day, the supporters and opponents had been arriving at a space that the Police had scrupulously separated with fences so that they did not mix, and at no time did they add up to more than a hundred people.
The police and journalists almost added up the same thing as them.
Mostly, white people came to the gates of the court, although some Asians, Latinos or blacks were seen. Traffic was cut off in the area throughout the day, and not only on the road, but also for pedestrians.
The character of the day, who already stole her fifteen minutes of glory yesterday, was a transsexual supporter of Trump who proudly showed her breasts and even used them to attack an ‘enemy’ to whom she put a breast in front of her, before destroying the sign that the other was carrying.
In general, it was Trump’s supporters who were most encouraged and shouted more vehemently, but without ever reaching violence.
Among his most repeated screams were those of “fake news” or “we are going to deport you” – as if they were immigrants -, in addition to “Puta justicia”.
The police, for their part, treated them with a silk glove and dedicated themselves to asking them for calm.
When the guilt verdict was known, the tension did not grow, rather on the contrary: before the timid cheers of the ‘anti-Trump’, their supporters crouched down, and one of them even began to cry, declaring that “love is not a crime” – in reference to Trump’s sexual encounter, it is supposed – and proclaiming that he had nothing left but to “lock himself in his house.”
Another friend of his kept shouting that Trump “has already won the 2024 elections,” because, according to him, the verdict will give him votes.
In front of them, the ‘anti-Trump’ shouted mainly “Enclock him up, lock him up.”
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Thousands rally nationwide against Trump’s threat to U.S. democracy
Thousands of protesters gathered on Saturday (April 19, 2025) in major cities like New York and Washington, as well as in small communities across the United States, in a second wave of demonstrations against President Donald Trump. The crowds denounced what they view as growing threats to the country’s democratic ideals.
In New York City, demonstrators of all ages rallied in front of the Public Library near Trump Tower, holding signs accusing the president of undermining democratic institutions and judicial independence.
Many protesters also criticized Trump’s hardline immigration policies, including mass deportations and raids targeting undocumented migrants.
“Democracy is in grave danger,” said Kathy Valyi, 73, the daughter of Holocaust survivors. She told AFP that the stories her parents shared about Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in 1930s Germany “are happening here now.”
In Washington, demonstrators voiced concern over what they see as Trump’s disregard for long-standing constitutional norms, such as the right to due process.
International
ACLU seeks emergency court order to stop venezuelan deportations under Wartime Law
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Friday asked two federal judges to block the U.S. government under President Donald Trump from deporting any Venezuelan nationals detained in North Texas under a rarely used 18th-century wartime law, arguing that immigration officials appear to be moving forward with deportations despite Supreme Court-imposed limitations.
The ACLU has already filed lawsuits to stop the deportation of two Venezuelan men held at the Bluebonnet Detention Center, challenging the application of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. The organization is now seeking a broader court order that would prevent the deportation of any immigrant in the region under that law.
In an emergency filing early Friday, the ACLU warned that immigration authorities were accusing other Venezuelan detainees of being members of the Tren de Aragua, a transnational criminal gang. These accusations, the ACLU argues, are being used to justify deportations under the wartime statute.
The Alien Enemies Act has only been invoked three times in U.S. history — most notably during World War II to detain Japanese-American civilians in internment camps. The Trump administration has claimed the law allows them to swiftly remove individuals identified as gang members, regardless of their immigration status.
The ACLU, together with Democracy Forward, filed legal actions aiming to suspend all deportations carried out under the law. Although the U.S. Supreme Court recently allowed deportations to resume, it unanimously ruled that they could only proceed if detainees are given a chance to present their cases in court and are granted “a reasonable amount of time” to challenge their pending removal.
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Dominican ‘False Hero’ Arrested for Faking Role in Nightclub Collapse That Killed 231
A man identified as Rafael Rosario Mota falsely claimed to have rescued 12 people from the collapse of the Jet Set nightclub in Santo Domingo—a tragedy that left 231 people dead—but he was never at the scene.
Intelligence agents in the Dominican Republic arrested the 32-year-old man for pretending to be a hero who saved lives during the catastrophic incident, authorities announced.
Rosario Mota had been charging for media interviews in which he falsely claimed to have pulled survivors from the rubble after the nightclub’s roof collapsed in the early hours of April 8, during a concert by merengue singer Rubby Pérez, who was among those killed.
“He was never at the scene of the tragedy,” the police stated. The arrest took place just after he finished another interview on a digital platform, where he repeated his fabricated story in exchange for money as part of a “media tour” filled with manipulated information and invented testimonies.
“False hero!” read a message shared on the police force’s Instagram account alongside a short video of the suspect, in which he apologized: “I did it because I was paid. I ask forgiveness from the public and the authorities.”
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