Trump skips much of the final week before Iowa's caucuses to go to court voluntarily instead
Former President Donald Trump is spending much of the week before Iowa’s kickoff caucuses more than 1,000 miles away, in court while his rivals make their last-ditch pitch to voters
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — While his rivals contend with snow drifts and frigid temperatures as they make their last-ditch pitch to Iowa voters, former President Donald Trump has spent much of the week before the caucuses in court instead, by choice.
Trump was in Washington, D.C. for a federal hearing Tuesday and is attending the closing arguments of his civil fraud trial in New York Thursday, with a brief trip to Iowa in between for a Fox News town hall. He'll only return to Iowa Saturday for a final blitz before the Monday caucuses.
Both court appearances are voluntary and Trump was not required to attend either. But his campaign has come to embrace his legal woes as a centerpiece of its strategy — one that has so far, supercharged his candidacy instead of hobbling it.
