Former President Donald Trump said Friday that the latest indictment of him was intended to distract from “bad publicity” surrounding allegations that Hunter Biden and Joe Biden were involved in a bribery scheme.
Trump pleaded not guilty to all charges during his Thursday arraignment after Special Counsel Jack Smith secured a four-count indictment of Trump relating to his efforts to contest the results of the 2020 election after Smith previously secured a 37-count indictment against Trump in June based on an investigation into allegations surrounding classified documents. (RELATED: Trump Jokes He Needs ‘One More Indictment’ To Win Election)
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“His henchmen indict me because they wanna knock out the bad publicity, you ever see, whenever they have something big happening,” Trump told attendees at a dinner hosted by the Alabama Republican Party. They put another indictment or especially indictment. It’s called a cover-up and what they do is illegal and horrible. Every time the radical left, Democrats, Marxist communists and fascists indict me I consider it a truly great badge of honor, because I’m being indicted for you. Thanks a lot, thanks a lot.”
Hunter Biden pled not guilty to all charges after the plea deal collapsed when United States District Judge Maryellen Noreika rejected both the initial plea deal and a more limited revision July 26. The next day, revealed the new charges in a superseding indictment that included charges against Carlos De Oliveira, a maintenance worker at Mar-a-Lago, the Florida estate owned by former President Trump.
“In the end, they’re not after me, they’re after you, and I just happen to be standing in their way and I will never leave,” Trump told the attendees. “I will never let them do that. Put me back in the White House, their reign will be over, and America will be a free nation once again.”
Editor’s note: This piece has been updated to remove a reference to Devon Archer’s testimony.
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