‘Every time I fly over a blue state, I get a subpoena:’ Trump speaks for the first time since the federal indictment — launching a blistering attack on the justice system’s ‘double standards’ at a campaign rally in Georgia
Donald Trump made his first public appearance since the documents in his indictment were unsealed.
The ex-president appeared along with acolyte Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene at a rally in Georgia.
In his remarks, Trump attacked the DOJ for using double standards for not investigating President Joe Biden.
Trump lashed out at the “corrupt” and “armed” Justice Department, saying at a rally in Georgia, “Every time I fly over a blue state, I get a subpoena.”
“The ridiculous and baseless charge against me by the Biden administration with the corrupt and armed DoJ,” he said on stage in Columbus, “will go down in the books as one of the worst abuses of power ever,” he said.
Trump slammed the “corrupt” and “armed” Justice Department
The ex-president appeared along with acolyte Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene at a rally in Georgia
The former president told the cheering crowd, “Together we will take on the globalists, the Marxists” and “the communists, environmental extremists, the open border fanatics, the radical left, the prosecutors and the fake news media.”
Adding empathetically, “Ultimately they don’t come after me, they come after you – and I’m just getting in their way and always will be.”
“We now have two legal standards in our country,” he continued.
“The democratic communists who imprison their opponents while protecting the murderers who prowl our cities night and day, and other brutal criminals.”
Adding that “no criminal is more protected than crooked Joe Biden.”
“It’s no coincidence that they charged me the same day it was revealed that the FBI had hidden explosive evidence that Joe Biden took $5 million in illegal bribes from Ukraine,” Trump claimed.
Trump walked onstage to the well-known patriotic tune of God Bless The USA by Lee Greenwood and enjoyed several minutes of cheering and waving from the audience before beginning his speech.
Taylor Green, invited to the stage by Trump during his speech, said, “President Trump beats Biden in poll after poll.”
Donald Trump made his first public appearance since the documents in his indictment were unsealed
Donald Trump left classified documents scattered around his Mar-a-Lago estate, according to stunning indictment unsealed by the Justice Department on Friday
Crowds appeared to hear the former president speak for the first time since his indictment was unsealed Friday
Trump fans waited for Trump to get off his plane in Georgia
Marjorie Taylor Greene arrives for Trump’s rally in Columbus, Georgia
“Let’s get Trump back in the White House for four more years,” she told the crowd who broke into a chant of “four more years.”
Donald Trump left classified documents in his bathroom and on the podium at the Mar-a-Lago ballroom and bragged to aides about stealing military secrets, according to the stunning indictment unsealed by the Justice Department on Friday.
Extraordinary new photos revealed in the damning dossier include claims that Trump clerk Walt Nauta walked into a storage unit and found “Five Eyes” intelligence files on allies, including the United Kingdom and Australia, on the floor.
There are also multiple instances where Trump suggested it would be “better” if the classified documents weren’t in Mar-a-Lago and even hinted at lawyers that they should remove them.
It also includes the full conversation he had with the author and publisher of ex-Chief of Staff Mark Meadows’s book, in which he admitted that he had not released documents about a military “plan of attack.”
Trump showed a secret card to someone who did not have security clearance — and admitted he was not allowed to share it — that had files related to the US nuclear program, the CIA and the Pentagon.
There are also extensive details about Trump being personally involved in moving documents between different parts of his sprawling Florida club, where he has hosted hundreds of parties since leaving office.
The former president has been hit with a total of 37 charges for his handling of classified documents, including 31 counts of willful withholding of national defense information under the Espionage Act. He will appear before a court in Miami on Tuesday afternoon and has already said he will plead not guilty.
The details laid out are far more damning than first thought, and could put Trump in serious legal jeopardy with possible decades in prison if convicted.