As former President Trump left the courtroom for the third time, he slammed the case against him, saying, “The whole world is watching this scandal in New York,” and that he “should be in jail.” The person who should be brought to justice is President Joe Biden. The day of his historic and unprecedented criminal trial.
The former president stood in the hallway of the courtroom and addressed reporters shortly after the full jury was selected to hear arguments from his defense attorneys and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
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Former President Donald Trump speaks as he arrives with his defense team at Manhattan Criminal Court before jury selection begins in New York, Monday, April 15, 2024. (Javin Botsford/Washington Post, via AP)
Trump, who is considered to be the 2024 Republican presidential candidate, had a thick stack of news articles from various news organizations and outlets.
President Trump said “everyone” knows the incident was “very unfair” and “very bad.”
“The whole world is watching this New York scandal,” he said, calling it a “spectacle.”
“This is political and it’s unfortunate. It’s unfortunate,” he said. “And I’ve been sitting in that frigid room for days now, from dawn to dusk, where everyone was freezing. And it was all for this.”
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The former president accused Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg of being “out of control,” which Judge Juan Machan, presiding over the case, called “highly contradictory.”
“Everything is a mess,” he said.
Judge Juan Mercian poses for a photo in his New York courtroom on Thursday, March 14, 2024. More than a dozen Manhattan residents will soon become the first Americans in history to be sentenced for a former president accused of a crime. Jury selection in former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial is scheduled to begin Monday. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) (AP)
“Joe Biden, he’s the guy who should be in jail,” President Trump said. “He is a fraud. We have a corrupt president. He should be tried for all the crimes he committed within his family.”
President Trump appeared to be referring to the Biden family’s business dealings, which are being investigated by House Republicans. These lawmakers have launched an impeachment inquiry against Biden.
Hunter Biden is currently under investigation by special counsel David Weiss, who has indicted his eldest son twice in two separate jurisdictions.
President Trump reiterated that Biden “should be brought to justice,” but added, “He is the one in charge.”
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Trump claimed that Biden’s “top people are here working with the prosecutor’s office to make sure everything goes well.”
“But they don’t have a case, so it’s not going to work,” he said. “And that’s what this is all about.”
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg arrives at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York on Tuesday, April 16, 2024. Donald Trump returns to a New York courtroom on Tuesday. A judge is working to find a jury to decide whether the former president is guilty of criminal charges that he allegedly falsified business records to cover up a sex scandal during the 2016 campaign. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
President Trump said that under the Biden administration, the United States is “degrading into a third world country with no borders, no justice, and a media that doesn’t want to report the facts.”
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President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event at the Martin Luther King Recreation Center on Thursday, April 18, 2024 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. (Hannah Baier/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, was indicted by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on 34 counts of first-degree falsification of business records. The charges are related to allegations that he paid hush money to adult film actress Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
Mr. Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges. He has denounced the trial as pure politics and “political persecution” and maintains his innocence. The former president is scheduled to testify at trial.
Asked last week about the possibility of testifying, President Trump said, “I will tell the truth.”
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President Trump is the first president in U.S. history to undergo a criminal trial.
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