His trial was rigged, Trump claims
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“Unhinged by his 2020 election loss and spiraling from his criminal convictions, Trump is consumed by his own thirst for revenge and retribution,” Biden campaign communications director Michael Tyler said in a statement. “He thinks this election is about him. It is not. It’s about the American people: lowering their costs, protecting their freedoms, defending their democracy.”
A small gathering of supporters cheered intermittently during Trump’s speech. The night before, a crowd gathered on the street outside of Trump Tower after the verdict, chanting, “New York hates you.”
After being convicted of 34 felony counts of plagiarizing business records, Donald Trump delivered remarks at Trump Tower maintaining his innocence.
He complained about the gag order and repeated his false claims about his trial. He said he wanted to testify in his defense, but was advised against it.
Trump used his remarks as a defense against his guilty verdict and his presidential campaign offense. Several times, he slammed the court and President Joe Biden at the same time, seeking to falsely connect the two.
“They are in total conjunction with the White House and the DOJ,” Trump said of the court. “Just so you understand, this is all done by Biden and his people.”
There is no proof to support the claim. The case against Trump was brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and prosecuted under New York state law, meaning the case was unconnected to the White House or DOJ.
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I would have testified. I wanted to testify,” he said. “The theory is you never testify because as soon as you testify — anybody, if it were George Washington, don’t testify because they’ll get you on something that you said slightly wrong, and then they sue you for perjury.”
Trump said that the congressional committee investigating the attack on the U.S Capitol would look into allegations made against him in 2022.
And he also for a time went into stump-speech mode, repeating his usual anti-immigration rhetoric, saying that American schools are full of people speaking “languages that we haven’t even heard of.”
The campaigns will be trying to get every last voter they can to vote for them, and Trump will be a big part of the campaign going forward.
The attempts started fast and furious. Trump and his surrogates denounced the legitimacy of the verdict immediately afterward, and both campaigns were quickly out with statements and fundraising appeals.
Biden will have to make a decision. And right now, he’s slightly behind in the race. So the question isn’t really whether Biden will talk about the conviction, but whether he’s capable of delivering and capitalizing on it.
ANPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll believes most voters are not going to change their minds. It showed that some, including younger voters, might be moved at the margins, but this may be a reset moment in the campaign.
It is a very big moment in American history. Many Americans will learn about the conviction as soon as possible. It is obvious that Trump did not want the headline to read, “Trump and convicted felon.” Unless an overturn is granted before the election, that is what will be attached to him.
The president has been very cautious about speaking out about Trump’s legal woes. With Trump continuing to dominate the news with wall-to-wall coverage of the trials, it’s been hard for the Biden campaign to break through.
This is Trump’s party. Full stop. He’s going to be nominated by the party. It will take place, incredibly, just days after he’s scheduled to be sentenced in this case (July 11).
Trump has full control over the Republican National Committee. He has installed loyalists in state parties across the country, and because of that, he’s in a stronger position with the Republican Party than in 2016 when he beat back a convention coup attempt from Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and allies.
But that’s not happening. Republicans from the speaker of the house to the Trump allies are auditioning to be his vice presidential running mate.
“There is still only one way to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office: at the ballot box,” Michael Tyler, a Biden campaign spokesman, said in a statement.
The New York kangaroo court is not rigged. Donald J. Trump was found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records
Remarkably, this is taking place in an election year in which said former president is running for his old job back, and it will undoubtedly have political consequences.
A jury of his peers in New York unanimously found Donald Trump guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in order to influence the 2016 presidential election.
The partisan divide in the wake of Donald J. Trump’s convictions was not like the opposing sides of a chasm but like an alternate universe where the former president had been hounded and persecuted by his corrupt political enemies.
If it existed, the distance between the two sides was vanishingly small. But a few voices in the Trump universe allowed that Mr. Trump may well have done something wrong, and a few in the anti-Trump sphere said they had finally been convinced to vote for his opponent, President Biden.
Marty Lee said that he believed that the election was rigged just like the one that happened. The trial was “a kangaroo court,” he added. There is no basis for the suggestion that the Manhattan case was rigged, despite false claims made by Mr. Trump and his allies that the election was rigged.
