Trump Falsely Attacks Biden During Post-Court Rant Vowing To Show Up At Federal Criminal Trials
Former President Donald Trump launched false attacks on President Joe Biden during a press conference as he told reporters he will show up at his federal criminal trials.
The trial in the fraud case brought by Attorney General Letitia James and presided over by Judge Arthur Engoron concluded with closing arguments on Thursday — and lots of unexpected fireworks. Trump was initially forbidden to speak in court after his lawyers refused to agree to restrictions, but Judge Engoron relented — and Trump pounced in court.
Trump also ranted about the case several times outside the courtroom, rattling off a familiar series of falsehoods. Then he held a raucous and falsehood-riddled press conference at the building he bragged about on 9/11.
Trump attacked Biden repeatedly during his opening remarks, including falsely accusing him of engineering the dozens of criminal charges.
During the Q&A portion of the presser, Trump was asked if he will similarly show up for the federal trials for election crimes and violations of The Espionage Act, and Trump tried to deflect using the markedly dissimilar Biden classified documents case:
REPORTER: Have you made decision about whether you’re going to show up for the federal trials? You’ve showed up here in New York for your civil fraud trial. You just said you’re going to show up for the E. Jean Carroll case. Are you planning to show up in court —
TRUMP: Yeah.
REPORTER: — when they begin, whenever they begin.
TRUMP: Sure, sure
REPORTER: In that documents case and the January 6th case?
TRUMP: I would do that. Well, the documents case, I just hear where they want to try and exonerate Biden, and he didn’t have the Presidential Records Act, and I do. What I did, nothing wrong. What he did, a lot of people say, substantially wrong.
You can’t have two tiers of justice in this country. But no, I want to go to all of my trials. These are all, again, these are all set up by Biden and the Democrats. This is their — this is their new form of cheating. This is like last time, this is their new form of cheating. So far, I think it’s gone very much against them.
Yeah, please.
Biden reportedly won’t face charges from Special Counsel Robert Hur’s investigation into classified documents first discovered and turned over by Biden’s team in entirely different circumstances than Trump’s.
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