Trump accuses Biden of election interference, calls special counsel 'thug' on 'political hit job'
A crowd cheered when former President Donald Trump arrived at a fundraiser on Tuesday at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in New Jersey after his flight landed at Newark Liberty International Airport.
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How will his supporters react to this news?
During his speech, the 45th president of the United States as the front-runner for the Republican 2024 nomination referred to the federal case against him as a "witch hunt" and accused President Joe Biden, who is running for reelection, of "election interference" and of "yet another attempt to rig and steal a presidential election."
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Guests arrive before former President Donald Trump speaks at 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 felony counts that he hoarded classified documents and refused government demands to give them back. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) (Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)
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What is Trump accused of?
Trump pleaded not guilty to 37 federal charges related to accusations 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 said the federal case was "one of the most outrageous and vicious legal theories ever put forward in an American court of law" and referred to Special Counsel Jack Smith as a "thug" working on "political hit jobs."
Former President Donald Trump speaks at 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 felony counts that he hoarded classified documents and refused government demands to give them back. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) (Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)
Trump also told the crowd that as president he had every right to go through the boxes, which he said that aside from classified documents, also included his personal records. He said he had not done anything other officials haven't done.
"This day will go down in infamy," Trump said about his arraignment hearing at the Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. U.S. Courthouse on Tuesday in downtown Miami.
Guests look up as a helicopter passes near as the motorcade with former President Donald Trump arrives at 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 felony counts that he hoarded classified documents and refused government demands to give them back. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) (Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)
The crowd also sang him "Happy Birthday" since he turns 77 on Wednesday.
"Some birthday, some birthday! We have got a government that is out of control," Trump said.
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The fundraiser at Bedminster included Attorney Kash Patel, the former chief of staff to the acting U.S. secretary of defense under Trump; Bernard Kerik, the 40th Commissioner of the New York Police Department; and Mike Lindell, better known as the My Pillow Guy.
"On Nov. 5, 2024, justice will be done," Trump said.
Former President Donald Trump appeared at his arraignment hearing in federal court on Tuesday and got right into campaigning mode at Versailles Restaurant in Miami's Little Havana.
Former President Donald Trump appeared at his arraignment hearing in federal court on Tuesday and got right into campaigning mode at Versailles Restaurant in Miami's Little Havana.