"The former president made clear he’ll fight the charges on political grounds."
In his first public remarks since a magistrate judge unsealed the damning case against him, Trump made clear that his best — and perhaps primary — defense against the charges will be waged in arenas before friendly audiences rather than in the courtroom.
The former president sought to galvanize his supporters to view the entire American justice system as corrupt, weaponized to target conservatives and deployed to prevent him from winning the 2024 election. The indictment, he said, was a “joke,” done only because Democrats feared him.
“These people don’t stop and they’re bad and we have to get rid of them,” Trump said to an audience assembled by the Georgia Republican Party. “These criminals cannot be rewarded. They must be defeated.”
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Trump made no secret of his plan to portray the prosecution against him — brought by special counsel Jack Smith — as secretly engineered by President Joe Biden, though the White House and the Department of Justice have gone to great lengths to keep a wall between them on the matter.
“This is a sick nest of people that needs to be cleaned out,” he proclaimed.
What a victim he is!
It seems as though he's decided that he can't win within the existing system of law, and that his only hope is to overthrow the system.
When an individual has been indicted for:
Wilful Retention of National Defence Information (31 counts)
Conspiracy to Obstruct Justice
Withholding a Document or Record
Corruptly Concealing a Document or Record
Concealing a Document in a Federal Investigation
Scheme to Conceal
and
False Statements and Representations,
...perhaps the risk of being further indicted for Sedition and/or Seditious Conspiracy carries little weight.
Make no mistake, though; What Trump is saying here (and elsewhere), and what many of his supporters, including elected representatives, are saying, amounts to a seditious conspiracy.
It also sounds worryingly similar to the sorts of things that are said elsewhere in history, in the lead up to civil disorder, massacres, pogroms, and revolutions.
Sununu maybe....
