The Biden administration’s “election interference” charge against former President Trump was characterised as “the most heinous abuse of power in our country’s history” by the former president.
In federal court in Miami, Florida, on Tuesday, front-runner for the presidency in 2024 Donald Trump entered a not guilty plea to 37 federal criminal counts related to his alleged unauthorised retention of confidential records at Mar-a-Lago.
Charges include making false statements and conspiring to impede justice as well as the purposeful retention of information related to national defence.
Tuesday night, Trump called Smith a “deranged lunatic” and criticised President Biden for having “his top political opponent arrested and charged” while speaking from his property, Trump National Golf Club Bedminster. According to him, he had experienced “political persecution like something straight out of a fascist or communist nation.”
On Tuesday, June 13, 2023, former president Donald Trump gave a speech at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey after entering a not guilty plea to many criminal charges that he hoarded sensitive materials and defied government requests to turn them over earlier in the day in a Miami courthouse. Andrew Harnik/AP Photo
President Biden, according to Trump, will “forever be remembered as not only the most corrupt president in the history of our country, but perhaps more importantly, the president, together with the band of his closest thugs, misfits, and Marxists trying to destroy American democracy, channelling real anger and charging the President of the United States under the Espionage Act of 1917.”
Part of the charges against Trump under the Espionage Act relate to his deliberate retention of information about the nation’s defence.
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The Espionage Act has been applied to traitors and spies, according to Trump. “It has nothing to do with a former president keeping his own records legally,” the speaker said.
Trump argued in his defence that the Presidential Records Act governs his situation.
According to Trump, he faces a 400-year prison sentence for “possessing presidential papers, which just about every other president has done.”
The Presidential information Act does not give the archivist any mandate, obligation, or even discretionary authority to classify information in accordance with the law, according to Trump. The President of the United States is the only person with authority to make this choice, hence it was made in this instance.
On Tuesday, June 13, 2023, former president Donald Trump will address at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey after entering a not guilty plea to dozens of criminal charges that he hoarded sensitive materials and defied government requests to turn them over earlier in the day in a Miami courthouse. Andrew Harnik/AP Photo
The president has the right—it is an unalienable right—to seize any documents he decides to do so, the speaker continued. That is the rule.
Trump blasted Hillary Clinton for destroying classified emails and Biden, who is the subject of a special counsel probe over his suspected unlawful retention of records.
Trump alleged that Clinton broke the law but was not charged. We are learning that Joe Biden violated the law in numerous different instances, although he has not yet been charged.
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He said, “I did everything right, and they still indicted me.”
Bill Clinton was singled out by Trump as the past president who “lost the nuclear codes and absolutely nothing was done and lost the nuclear codes.”
Trump mentioned the late George W. Bush, claiming that his White House “lost 22 million emails,” and said that the National Archives “cannot ensure a complete transfer of any of the Bush records.”
The heinous abuse of my rights by Crooked Joe Biden’s militarised Department of Injustice, according to Trump.
Resuming, Trump referred to Special Counsel Jack Smith as a “thug.”
Jack Smith, special counsel. (Screenshot from Fox News/ AP Photo)
He said, “I’ve called him insane Jack Smith.” He engages in political hit jobs…He appears to be a gangster.
Then, Trump attacked Smith, calling her a “raging and uncontrolled Trump hater.”
31 counts of willful retention of national defence information, including documents about White House intelligence briefings about various foreign nations, documents about the military prowess of a foreign country and the U.S. with handwritten annotation in black marker, a document from June 2020 about the nuclear prowess of a foreign nation, and a document from October 21, 2018, about communications with a leader of a fo
Trump is also accused of plotting to obstruct the legal system. The “purpose” of the conspiracy, according to the indictment, was for Trump “to keep the classified documents he had taken with him from the White House and to hide and conceal them from a federal grand jury.”
In June 2022, after claiming that a “diligent search” of Mar-a-Lago had been done, he was charged with two charges of withholding official records, one count of hiding a document during a federal investigation, one count of “scheme to conceal,” and making a false statement. After receiving the subpoena, the search was carried out, and “any and all responsible documents accompany this certification.”
Former President Donald Trump gestures as he leaves a speech at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey on Tuesday, June 13, 2023. Earlier in the day, he entered a not guilty plea to dozens of felony charges alleging he hoarded classified documents and defied government requests to turn them over. Andrew Harnik/AP Photo
Trump also mentioned the “Biden crime family,” citing a Fox News Digital exclusive that claimed Biden received $5 million from a top executive of the Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings, where his son, Hunter, served on the board, while serving as vice president.
Trump also referred to the 17 supposed audio recordings of conversations between the Burisma executive and Joe and Hunter Biden that reportedly occurred when Biden was vice president.
In 2024, if he were to win re-election, Trump promised to appoint a special prosecutor “to go after the most corrupt president in the history of the United States of America,” referring to Joe Biden and “the entire Biden crime family.”
At the Hancock Field Air National Guard Base in Syracuse, New York, on February 4, 2023, President Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, step off Air Force One. Patrick Semansky/AP Photo
They are ruining our nation. And we won’t have a choice once I’m reelected and we win. We won’t have a country any more, he declared. “”I will completely destroy the deep state.”
Trump continued, “They want to take away my freedom because I will never let them take away your freedom.”
It’s so easy, he said. Because I won’t allow them to quiet you, they want to silence me.
According to Trump, he is “the only one who can save this nation.”
He remarked, “You know, they’re not chasing me; they’re after you. And I’m just so happening to be in their way.”
And I won’t ever move, he continued.
