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Former President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he is “in a sick way” enjoying the legal charges and investigations brought against him for “exposing” the motivations of his political opponents.
Speaking at the North Carolina Republican Party convention in Greensboro, Trump spoke about the recently unsealed federal indictment accusing him of mishandling classified documents, as well as the various investigations against him since he became president in 2016. president was elected.
“They launched witch hunt after witch hunt, and they’re just trying to stop our movement,” Trump said. “They want to do everything they can to thwart the will of the American people. It’s called election interference. That’s what they’re doing now. And we’ve never seen it on a scale like this. The other side is downright crooked.”
Trump, who said Trump said he has “5,000 prosecutors” after him, was indicted Friday on 37 federal counts, including willful withholding of national defense information, conspiracy to obstruct justice and false statements.
Former US President Donald Trump speaks at a rally at the Waco Regional Airport in March 2023. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
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Trump also referred to the impeachment proceedings against him and the findings of Special Counsel John Durham, who last month released a final report on his investigation into the original investigation into whether Trump and his campaign colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 presidential election. Durham found that there was never any information justifying the opening of the FBI investigation and that the agency and the Justice Department “failed their mission of strict adherence to the law.”
“We knocked it all down, didn’t we?” said Trump. “They put our country through hell and they knew it was a lie all along.”
The former president then suggested that any Republican who becomes president will be subject to similar scrutiny and subject to endless political attacks, arguing that everyone but him will succumb to such pressure.
Former US President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Hilton Anatole on August 6, 2022 in Dallas, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
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“That person will not be able to withstand the fire,” he said. “And they admit it too. They come to me: ‘How do you feel about this?’ And I usually look at it and say, “In a sick way, I sort of enjoy it, because it exposes them.” It shows them for what they are, and it’s also lifted the polls even higher.”
Trump praised polls that showed him comfortably ahead as the front-runner in the 2024 Republican presidential primary.
Trump also directed his anger at President Joe Biden, calling him “corrupt.”
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Earlier in the day, Trump made his first public remarks since being indicted, accusing Democrats of a “political assault” against him and alleging double standards in Biden’s administration of justice.
Aaron Kliegman is a political reporter for Fox News Digital.
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