A crowd cheered as former President Donald Trump arrived at a fundraiser at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in New Jersey on Tuesday after his flight landed at Newark Liberty International Airport.
During his speech, the 45th president of the United States as the favorite for the 2024 Republican nomination referred to the federal case against him as a “witch hunt” and accused President Joe Biden, who is running for re-election , of “electoral interference”. ” and of “another attempt to manipulate and steal a presidential election”.
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Guests arrive before former President Donald Trump speaks at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, NJ, Tuesday, June 13, 2023, after pleading not guilty in a Miami courtroom earlier in the day to dozens of felonies crimes that he seized classified documents and denied to the government. demands to return them. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) (Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)
Trump pleaded not guilty to 37 federal charges related to allegations that he mishandled classified documents at his clubs in New Jersey and Florida while blocking the federal government’s efforts to recover them.
Trump also called the federal case “one of the most outrageous and vicious legal theories ever presented in an American court of justice” and referred to special counsel Jack Smith as a “thug” who works in “political occupations”.
Former President Donald Trump speaks at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, NJ, Tuesday, June 13, 2023, after pleading not guilty in a Miami courtroom earlier in the day to dozens of felony charges that he accumulate classified documents and refused the demands of the government to give them back. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) (Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)
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Trump also told the crowd that as president he had every right to go through the boxes, which he said aside from classified documents, also included his personal records. He said he had done nothing that other officials had not done.
“This day will go down in infamy,” Trump said of his impeachment hearing at the Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. U.S. Courthouse. Tuesday in downtown Miami.
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Guests watch as a helicopter flies by as the motorcade carrying former President Donald Trump arrives at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, NJ, Tuesday, June 13, 2023, after pleading not guilty in a Miami courtroom in early in the day for dozens of crimes. he claims he seized classified documents and refused government demands to return them. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) (Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)
The crowd also sang “Happy Birthday” to him since he turns 77 this Wednesday.
“Some birthday, some birthday! We have a government that is out of control,” Trump said.
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The fundraiser in Bedminster included attorney Kash Patel, the former chief of staff to the acting U.S. defense secretary under Trump; Bernard Kerik, the 40th commissioner of the New York Police Department; and Mike Lindell, better known as the My Pillow Guy.
“On November 5, 2024, justice will be served,” Trump said.
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Former President Donald Trump gestures after speaking at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., Tuesday, June 13, 2023, after pleading not guilty in a Miami courtroom earlier in the day to dozens of felonies of crimes that amassed classified documents and refused government demands. to return them (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) (Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)
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