Former President Donald Trump made his first public speech since the indictment on Saturday, lashing out at Special Counsel Jack Smith, the Justice Department and the FBI, and promising to oust President Joe Biden in 2024.
President Trump announced on Thursday that he had been informed of the matter. prosecution It was released on Friday and revealed 31 espionage law charges related to Smith’s document investigation and August’s Mar-a-Lago attack. The former president maintained that the charges were “election interference,” and was quick to point to documents found at Mr. Biden’s home.
“Now the Marxist Left is once again using the same corrupt Department of Justice and the same corrupt FBI, and the Attorney General and local district attorneys, to run elections at a level our country, and most countries have never seen before. They’re cheating, they’re crooked, they’re corrupt,” President Trump said at the Republican convention in Georgia. “There is no reward for these criminals, they must be beaten, you must beat them, you must beat them. After all, they killed me.” I’m not chasing you, I’m chasing you because I’m just getting in their way. increase.”
President Trump has released documents found at the Penn-Biden Center, the president’s think tank in Washington, D.C., and at Biden’s Delaware home during his vice presidency, as well as classified documents found at the home of former Vice President Mike Pence. It pointed out. He accused Smith of being “insane” and a “Trump hater” and criticized the lack of charges against Pence and Biden.
“On November 5, 2024, we will confront our corrupt political system. We will do it,” Trump said. (Related: ‘Let’s not hide it’: Pence calls on Merrick Garland to stand before Americans and tackle Trump prosecution)
“The bets on this election couldn’t be tougher. We’re going to be either the Deep State or Democracy, but we’re really at the tipping point,” Trump said. “Right now we are leaning a lot towards the Deep State, but the Deep State is not strong enough. Deep State right now is a good word compared to being in. There are either failed nations or free and successful nations and they win or we win, it’s very easy.It’s easy, Either they win or you win.”
The indictment stems from a multi-year investigation into the former president that included an FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago in August that recovered more than 300 pages of classified documents. The first time Trump learned of the impending documentary indictment was on Wednesday when his lawyer received a letter from federal prosecutors informing the former president that he was under investigation.
“This place is a den of sick people and needs to be cleaned up immediately. Get out,” Trump said.
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