Donald Trump attended the high school graduation ceremony of his youngest son Barron, 18, in Florida on Friday. The judge in his ongoing trial in New York has agreed to release him for the occasion. AFPTV footage shows the former US president sitting alongside his wife Melania on bleachers in West Palm Beach, near his Mar-a-Lago residence.
Below, high school students wearing the traditional square hat, black dress and red scarf. “I’m going to Barron’s high school graduation. Great student, great boy!” Donald Trump wrote on his Truth Social network in the morning.
This ceremony in Florida offers him a family break in the middle of his trial for accounting falsifications in New York. Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, Donald Trump was forced to listen for hours the prosecution’s testimony from his former lawyer turned arch-enemy, Michael Cohen. The judge granted defendant Trump a break from these hearings to be able to attend this moment with his son, so important for American families.
At the beginning of May, the Republican Party of Florida designated the discreet Barron Trump to be one of the delegates called to officially nominate his father Donald as candidate for the US presidential election in November in July. But although “honored” by this choice, he finally declined “due to previous commitments,” his mother Melania’s office said the next day.
