Trump Defiant After Arrest, Rips ‘Trump-Hating’ Judge, Prosecutor, AND Their Wives
Former President Donald Trump returned home to Florida Tuesday evening, following an unprecedented arraignment in New York City, and defiantly addressed his supporters from the Mar-a-Lago ballroom. Trump delivered a fiery, 25-minute address, slamming the presiding judge, the district attorney, and even their “Trump-hating” wives.
“The only crime that I’ve committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it,” Trump declared. He had flown from Palm Beach International Airport to New York before being fingerprinted and processed at a criminal court earlier in the day. Hundreds of supporters gathered in the Manhattan streets to protest the politically-charged prosecution.
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“The criminal is the district attorney because he illegally leaked massive amounts of grand jury information, for which he should be prosecuted, or at a minimum, he should resign,” Trump said, railing against Soros-funded district attorney Alvin Bragg.
“[Bragg] campaigned on the fact that he would ‘get’ President Trump — ‘I’m gonna get him, I’m gonna get him’… He wanted to get President Trump at any cost before he knew anything about me, didn’t know a thing about me. He was campaigning. As it turns out, virtually everybody that has looked at this case, including RINOs and even hardcore Democrats say there is no crime and that it should never have been brought.”
Trump also took a shot at Bragg’s wife, saying that she “confirmed a report that her husband ‘has Trump nailed on felonies,'” before adding that “she has since locked down her Twitter account.”
“Meanwhile, overall crime in New York was up 30% last year, much more than that the year before, with felony assaults, robberies and burglaries all up by massive, massive numbers. Not the same place that I know, not the same place you know.”
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In his address, Trump also took aim at the judge overseeing the case, Juan Manuel Merchan. The former president had previously insisted on moving the court proceedings to Staten Island, accusing the Manhattan judge of being biased against him. Trump continued his line of attack from the Mar-a-Lago ballroom.
“I have a Trump-hating judge with a Trump-hating wife and family whose daughter worked for Kamala Harris and now receives money from the Biden Harris campaign — and a lot of it.”
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Merchan previously presided over the trial of Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg, who had been accused of committing tax fraud. Trump called the prosecution “right out of the old Soviet Union.”
“The same judge told the fine man who worked for me for many, many years, that ‘if you admit your guilt, you will be in jail for 90 days – but if you don’t, and we go through a trial and you’re found guilty, you’re going away for 10 years and maybe longer.’ Which for a 75 year old man with a great family, really means life. What the prosecutors and judge did to that man, I will never forget.”
Trump added, “they can’t beat us at the ballot box, so they try and beat us through the law.”
The next in-court hearing date is scheduled for December 4. Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
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