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Former President Trump declared it is President Joe Biden who "should beryllium successful jail" and "be connected trial," while blasting nan lawsuit against him and saying "the full world is watching this New York scandal," arsenic he near tribunal aft nan 3rd time of his historical and unprecedented criminal trial.
The erstwhile president, soon aft a afloat assemblage was selected to perceive arguments from his defense attorneys and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg arsenic he seeks to make his case, stood successful nan hallway of nan courthouse and addressed nan press.
Former President Donald Trump speaks arsenic he arrives astatine Manhattan criminal tribunal pinch his ineligible squad up of nan commencement of assemblage action successful New York, Monday, April 15, 2024. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via AP)
Trump, nan presumptive 2024 Republican statesmanlike nominee, held a heavy stack of news articles from a scope of different news outlets and media organizations.
Trump said "every 1 of them" knows nan lawsuit is "very unfair" and a "very bad thing."
"The full world is watching this New York scandal," he said, calling it a "spectacle."
"It is governmental and it is simply a shame—it is simply a shame," he said. "And I americium sitting present for days now from greeting until nighttime successful that freezing room—everybody was freezing successful there—and each for this."
The erstwhile president blasted Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg arsenic "out of control" and said Judge Juan Merchan who is presiding complete nan lawsuit is "highly conflicted."
"The full point is simply a mess," he said.
Judge Juan Merchan poses for a image successful his chambers, Thursday, March 14, 2024, successful New York. A twelve Manhattan residents are soon to go nan first Americans ever to beryllium successful judgement of a erstwhile president charged pinch a crime. Jury action is group to commencement Monday successful erstwhile President Donald Trump's hush-money trial. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) (AP Photos)
"Joe Biden—he’s nan 1 that should beryllium successful jail," Trump said. "He’s a crook. We’ve sewage a crooked president. He should beryllium connected proceedings pinch each nan worldly he’s done successful his family."
Trump was seemingly referring to nan Biden family's business dealings, which person been nether investigation by House Republicans. Those lawmakers launched an impeachment enquiry against Biden.
Hunter Biden is presently nether investigation by Special Counsel David Weiss who has charged nan first boy twice, successful 2 abstracted jurisdictions.
Trump again said Biden "should beryllium connected trial," but said: "He’s nan 1 successful charge."
Trump claimed that Biden’s "top group are present moving pinch nan DA’s agency to make judge everything goes right."
"But it shouldn’t spell correct because they person nary case," He said. "And that is what this is each about."
Manhattan territory lawyer Alvin Bragg arrives astatine Manhattan criminal court, Tuesday, April 16, 2024, successful New York. Donald Trump returns to a New York courtroom Tuesday arsenic a judge useful to find a sheet of jurors who will determine whether nan erstwhile president is blameworthy of criminal charges alleging he falsified business records to screen up a activity ungraded during nan 2016 campaign. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
Trump said that nether Biden, nan United States is "devolving into a Third World country, betwixt having nary borders, having nary justice, and having a property that doesn’t want to screen nan facts."
President Joe Biden speaks during a run arena astatine nan Martin Luther King Recreation Center successful Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US, connected Thursday, April 18, 2024. (Hannah Beier/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Trump, nan presumptive Republican statesmanlike nominee, has been charged by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg pinch 34 counts of falsifying business records successful nan first degree. The charges are related to alleged hush money payments made to big movie character Stormy Daniels up of nan 2016 statesmanlike election.
Trump has pleaded not blameworthy to each counts. He has blasted nan proceedings arsenic axenic politics, a "political persecution" and maintains his innocence. The erstwhile president is expected to attest during his trial.
"I show nan truth," Trump said past week, erstwhile asked astir his imaginable testimony.
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Trump is nan first president successful United States history to guidelines criminal trial.
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