PALM BEACH, Fla.—As the leader of the nation’s largest grassroots club supporting former President Donald Trump, Larry Snowden felt disquieted as he headed toward the Miami courthouse where he knew that Trump would make history in an unenviable way.
Yet Snowden, president of Palm Beach-based Club 47 USA, says he was uplifted by what he witnessed while driving from his home in Boca Raton, Florida, about 45 miles away from the Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. U.S. Courthouse in Miami.
“I saw thousands of people out supporting President Trump. I only saw one person that was anti-Trump,” Snowden told The Epoch Times on June 14, a day after Trump pleaded not guilty to 37 federal charges. Trump is the nation’s first former president to face not only state charges but also federal ones. Court proceedings are being set in a New York state court and in the Miami federal court. Additional accusations could be filed in Georgia and Washington, where probes continue for his opposition to the 2020 election results declaring Democrat Joe Biden the winner.
“It is distressing that this is actually happening in our country,” Snowden said, as Trump continues his quest to become a three-time winner of the Republican Party’s presidential nomination. Trump won in 2016 and served as president from 2017-2021. He’s now seeking to displace Biden from the White House in the 2024 race.
Snowden acknowledged that, despite his observations of overwhelming support for Trump en route to the Miami courthouse, he did later see video footage showing “there was a lot of opposition” to Trump, too.
Still, Snowden contends: “Somebody had to look real hard to find these people who were not in total support of President Trump.”
