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Donald Trump appeared at UFC 302 and obtained an enormous ovation from the followers Saturday night time on the Prudential Heart in Newark, New Jersey, as followers waited for the primary occasion that includes Dustin Poirier difficult Islam Makhachev for the UFC Light-weight Championship.
Trump walked into the world with UFC president Dana White. He additionally stopped to greet comic Theo Von. Trump shook arms with some followers and waved to the group.
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Donald Trump attends the UFC 302 occasion on the Prudential Heart on June 1, 2024 in Newark, New Jersey. (Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC through Getty Photographs)
The previous president then took his spot simply exterior the UFC Octagon and ready to observe the primary card.
It was one in every of Trump’s first public appearances since he was discovered responsible on all counts in a legal trial in New York on Thursday.
Manhattan District Lawyer Alvin Bragg has charged Trump with 34 counts of first-degree falsifying company data. Trump pleaded not responsible to all fees.
“This was a disgrace. This was a rigged trial by a conflicted choose who was corrupt as a rigged trial and a shame. It would not give us a change of venue,” Trump stated afterwards. “We have been at 5 – 6 p.c on this district, on this space. This was a rigged, shameful course of.”
Trump stated: “The true judgment can be pronounced by the folks on November 5.”
Former President Donald Trump, middle proper, smiles at Dana White, entrance left, whereas attending the UFC 302 combined martial arts occasion on Saturday, June 1, 2024 in Newark, NJ (AP Picture/Frank Franklin II)
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“And so they know what occurred right here and everybody is aware of what occurred right here,” Trump stated. “You might have a Soros-backed prosecutor and all that.”
He added, “We’ve not achieved something incorrect. I am a really harmless man. And it is okay. I am preventing for our nation. I am preventing for our Structure. Our total nation is being manipulated proper now.”
Trump stated the matter was “achieved by the Biden administration to injure or harm an adversary, a political opponent.”
“And I feel it is only a disgrace. And we are going to maintain preventing – we are going to struggle till the tip and we are going to win as a result of our nation has gone to hell,” he stated. “We do not have the identical nation anymore. Now we have a divided mess. We’re a nation in decline, severe decline.”
Trump stated, “Thousands and thousands and hundreds of thousands of persons are pouring into our nation now from prisons and psychological establishments, terrorists. And so they’re taking up our nation. Now we have a rustic that is in huge hassle.”
Donald Trump seems to be up throughout the UFC 302 occasion on the Prudential Heart on June 1, 2024 in Newark, New Jersey. (Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC through Getty Photographs)
“However this was a rigged choice from day one, with a conflicted choose who ought to by no means have tried this case. By no means,” he stated. “And we are going to struggle for our Structure. That is removed from over.”
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Trump has appeared semi-regularly at UFC occasions. He’s shut mates with White, who spoke in favor of Trump on the 2016 Republican Nationwide Conference.
Fox Information’ Brooke Singerman contributed to this report.
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