Trump to spend months telling us he is a defender of democracy and a champion against Biden corruptionFormer US president Donald Trump speaking at a news conference at Trump Tower in New York City on Friday following a guilty verdict in his hush-money trial.
The cameras were there once more as Trump walked past that same escalator and spoke for just over 30 minutes in a stream-of-consciousness delivery that moved from the specific injustices and absurdities of the criminal case as he saw them to the themes familiar from his campaign rallies: immigration, the border, the economy.
“We are living in a fascist state,” he said. He called his political rival, Joe Biden, “the dumbest president we’ve ever had, he’s a Manchurian candidate” and told the gathering that “the judge was a tyrant”.“We had a failed DA,” he said, in reference to Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg, who brought the hush money case against him. ”Crime is rampant in New York. In McDonald’s yesterday you had a man hitting ‘em up with a machete.
As the fact checkers rushed to parse his speech they may have been unanimous in deciding that that closing line was indisputable. Overnight the Republican response to the conviction had become a cohesive narrative: that the decision was the inevitable result of a trial which from the beginning had been a concerted and premeditated plan to “get Donald Trump”, as Byron Donalds, the Republican congressman from Florida, put it on Friday morning.
“The American principle that no one is above the law was reaffirmed. Donald Trump was given every opportunity to defend himself. It was a state case, not a federal case. And it was heard by a jury of 12 citizens, 12 Americans, 12 people like you,” he told reporters at the White House. “It was a process that Donald Trump’s attorney was part of. The jury heard five weeks of evidence.
So ends one of the strangest and most significant legal trials in US history. The court building in lower Manhattan will return to administering more mundane and everyday justice to everyday citizens.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
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