“The only crime I have committed is fearlessly defending our nation once morest those who seek to destroy it,” the Republican told supporters Tuesday night (local time) at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
It was the 76-year-old’s first public speech following the sensational indictment reading in New York. The charges once morest him are “massive electoral interference on a scale that our country has never seen before,” criticized Trump, who is running as his party’s presidential candidate for the 2024 election. “I never thought something like this might happen in America,” Trump said, lamenting that the country was going down the drain under Democratic leadership. He portrays the prosecution once morest him as an attempt by his political opponents to take him out for the 2024 election.
“The justice system has become lawless”
“Our justice system has become lawless,” he fumed Trump. President Joe Biden’s Democrats tried to use it to win elections. “We are a nation in decline. And now these radical left-wing crazies want to influence our elections with the help of the law enforcement agencies,” he fumed Trump. “We can’t allow that.” The Republican called the indictment ridiculous and prosecutor Alvin Bragg a failure.
The ex-president had to appear in court in Manhattan on Tuesday, where he was given details of the unprecedented charges once morest him. Trump was briefly detained for the reading of the indictment, but was allowed to leave the court and New York immediately followingwards. He had not made a public statement regarding the allegations once morest him around the time in New York. Trump finally commented on his return to Florida.
34 fakes
The public prosecutor charged him with falsifying business documents in 34 cases. He wanted to hide harmful information and illegal activities before and following the 2016 presidential election. At the center of the allegations is the payment of hush money to a porn actress. Trump is the first ex-president in US history to face criminal charges. He pleaded “not guilty” in court.
During his appearance in Mar-a-Lago, Trump also bitterly complained regarding the other investigations ongoing once morest him, including his handling of classified government documents.
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