Trump Rants Outside Porn Star Hush Money Hearing — Lashes Out at Biden and ‘Dirty Crime-Ridden’ City
Former President Donald Trump ranted outside a hearing over his payment of hush money to a porn star, falsely accusing President Joe Biden of directing the prosecution and lashing out at the “dirty” city.
Trump was in court Thursday for a hearing in the case that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has brought involving hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, which resulted in a several-dozen-count indictment of Trump.
As he headed inside, Trump spoke to reporters for about four minutes, and unleashed a familiar set of attacks accusing Biden of “election interference,” attacking the charges as “not a crime,” and disparaging New York City:
It’s not a crime. This is not a crime. And when you look at what’s going on outside the streets where violent crime is at an all-time high. I think it’s a very, very — it’s a great double standard. The other thing, this case could be brought three years ago. There is no case. They decided not to bring in the district attorney. Bragg didn’t want to bring it. He said he doesn’t want to bring this case. But it’s not a crime. We’re here for something that is not a crime. Nobody’s ever seen anything like it.
What it is is election interference. It’s being run by Joe Biden, his White House. His top person was placed here in order to make sure everything goes right. This is a terrible time for our country. This is a real dark period for our country. His top person called Angelo and some others have been placed into the DA’s office to make sure they do a good job of election interference. There’s never been anything like this in the history of our country.
With all of this being said, I look outside, I look at history. It’s so different from when I left New York. It’s so different. It’s dirty and it’s crime ridden. And today you walk down the street, you get mugged or you get shot. And they are doing this where literally legal experts, legal scholars said they don’t understand that there’s no crime and there was no crime here at all.
This is just a way of hurting me in the election because I’m leading by a lot. We’re leading by numbers that nobody’s ever seen before, and they figure this is their way of cheating this time. Last time, they had a different way. This time, they have something that’s really down and dirty that, no, frankly, no country does other than a third world country, a banana republic. So we’re going to do our process. They want to rush it because they want to get it desperately before the election come back in because before the election, that’s what they want to do. They don’t care.
After the election, they wouldn’t have brought this except for the fact. No way. Except for the fact I’m running for president and doing well. If I were doing poorly, they wouldn’t have brought it. And frankly, if I didn’t run, they would have been extremely happy because they don’t like me running and they don’t like the numbers.
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