Donald Trump left the courtroom when his trial adjourned for the day on Tuesday and visited the co-owner of a bodega in Harlem. It was a perfect campaign opportunity and a sharp jab in the eye to Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg.
Did he buy a lottery ticket or perhaps some snacks? Who knows? When Trump visits fast food restaurants, he picks up the tabs of the customers or he buys a round of milkshakes and sandwiches. Trump does well when he plays the everyman and goes where the regular people are.
Trump went to Harlem to speak to Maad Ahmed and small business advocate Francisco Marte at the Sanaa Convenient Store, formerly known as the Blue Convenient Store. This is the bodega where a clerk, Jose Alba, stabbed an ex-con to death in self-defense two years ago. The case became national news because Alba was charged with murder.
“What happened to Jose was very hard for me. Jose was…
