by Ben Whedon at Just the News
Remarks start at 6:55
Former President Donald Trump outlined his legal defense in a Tuesday evening speech after pleading not guilty to 37 criminal counts related to his handling of classified materials the same day.
Trump made his remarks in Bedminster, N.J., after appearing at a Miami federal courthouse to enter his plea earlier that day. Trump has denied any wrongdoing and characterized special counsel Jack Smith’s bringing of charges against him as part of an ongoing Democrat-led political persecution of him.
“Today we witness the most evil and heinous abuse of power in the history of our country,” he said. “A corrupt sitting president had his top political opponent arrested on fake and fabricated charges of which he and numerous other presidents would be guilty right in the middle of a presidential election in which he is losing very badly.”
“This is called election interference,” he continued. “More importantly, it’s a political persecution like something straight out of a fascist or a communist nation. This day will go down in infamy and Joe Biden will forever be remembered not only as the most corrupt president in the history of our country, but perhaps even more importantly the president, who together with a band of his closest thugs, misfits, and Marxists, tried to destroy American democracy.”
“But they will fail and we will win bigger than every before,” he vowed. “Charging a former president of the United States under the Espionage Act of 1917, it wasn’t meant for this.”
In an uncharacteristically detailed explanation,…
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