With former President Trump tied up in court for much of the next six weeks or more, supporters are staging events and creating an online chorus that the trial-bound Trump later touts on social media.

Why it matters: The Trump loyalists, operating separately from his campaign, are amplifying Trump's grievance-fueled messaging well beyond his online rants and indignant statements before and after court sessions in Manhattan.

Zoom in: These groups and individuals are creating Trump-adoring content that ranges from sympathetic to the sort of indignant, critic-bashing attacks that can sound like they came from Trump himself.

• Elon Musk told his 180 million followers on X that the New York hush-money case — in which Trump is accused of falsifying business records to cover up a $130,000 payment to a porn star to keep her from publicizing their affair — "is obviously a corruption of the law."
• Trump reposted Musk's tweet.

Right-wing activist Laura Loomer is pumping out partisan research that seeks to link Judge Juan Merchan to liberals. Loomer hosted a pro-Trump rally this week near the Manhattan courthouse where Merchan is presiding over the hush-money case.

• Trump and his son Don Jr. shared a promo for a 30-minute documentary criticizing the prosecutors in Trump's four criminal cases. The film, "Chasing Trump," was produced by American Greatness, a conservative web site run by author and publisher Chris Buskirk.

Conservative personalities — including Glenn Beck, Laura Ingraham, Newt Gingrich and former White House official Stephen Miller — are among the Trump friendlies who've generated dozens of easily shared pro-Trump radio and TV soundbites this week.

• Their posts have been staples of Trump's Truth Social feed as well as his campaign's feed.

Reality check: Many of the posts and messages put out by the pro-Trumpers doesn't dwell on the evidence in the New York case or Trump's other indictments — which involve allegations that he led a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election, tried to change Georgia's election result and illegally kept classified documents.

• Instead, they largely repeat Trump's claims that the prosecutions of him are politically motivated — the products of a vast Democratic conspiracy.

Between the lines: Trump has expressed frustration at the prospect of being in court four days a week, not being able to post on social media as much as usual, and being under a gag order.

• On Truth Social he's called Merchan a "Trump Hate Judge" who "won't let me respond to people that are on TV lying and spewing hate all day long."
• "I want to speak, or at least be able to respond," he wrote before Tuesday's court session in New York.