Former President Trump spoke against his unprecedented arrest and arraignment Tuesday night, telling supporters at Mar-a-Lago: “We have to save our country.”
“The only crime that I’ve committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it,” Trump said hours after pleading not guilty.
“[Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg] campaigned on the fact that he would get President Trump — ‘I’m gonna get him, I’m gonna get him’ — this is a guy campaigning… this, before he knew anything about me,” Trump told hundreds of fans gathered in his Palm Beach club’s ballroom.
“In the wings, they’ve got a local racist Democrat district attorney in Atlanta who is doing everything in our power to indict me over an absolutely perfect phone call — even more perfect than the one I made with the president of Ukraine,” Trump said.
“Then you have a radical left lunatic, known as a bomb-thrower, who is harassing hundreds of my people day after day over the boxes hoax,” he added. “This lunatic new special prosecutor named Jack Smith … others of his ilk say he’s even worse than they are.”
Trump also slammed New York state Attorney General Letitia James, for bringing a civil lawsuit against him.
Trump did not speak to the throngs of reporters outside the courtroom in Lower Manhattan, saving his vitriol for primetime.
