Last month, Donald Trump was indignant when it appeared that the judge in his hush-money trial might not let him have a day off from the proceedings in order to attend his son Barron’s high school graduation. Trump said Barron “was looking forward for years to have graduation with his mother and father there” at the ceremony, but it looked like the judge wouldn’t let him “escape this scam—it’s a scam trial.”
In the end, of course, Judge Juan Merchan did allow the former president a day off from the trial to go to the graduation, which is set to take place in Florida on Friday. Given how upset he was about the prospect of not being to spend the day with his son in the Sunshine State, it’s perhaps a little surprising that he’s planning to be at the opposite end of the country at a GOP fundraiser on Friday evening.
After the graduation at Oxbridge Academy in West Palm Beach, Trump will be heading off to Minnesota. There, he’s set to headline the state GOP’s annual Lincoln Reagan dinner in St. Paul—tickets for the event start at $500 but go all the way up to $100,000 for a 10-person VIP table that includes photo opportunities with Trump.
