“Of course, he will have the opportunity to appeal his sentence, just like everyone else,” President Biden said Friday after former President Donald Trump was convicted in a New York criminal trial.
Biden added, “It is reckless, dangerous and irresponsible to say there was fraud simply because you don’t like the verdict.”
A jury found Trump guilty on Thursday on all 34 counts of first-degree falsifying business records.
President Biden spoke on Friday for the first time since former President Trump was convicted in a New York criminal trial. (AP/Alex Brandon/Julia Nickinson)
The Trump campaign on Friday warned Biden to “tighten up” following the verdict.
“Unscrupulous Joe Biden and Democrats have locked President Trump in the courts for over six weeks, eight hours a day or more, and yet he keeps winning,” Trump campaign spokesperson Caroline Leavitt told Fox News Digital. “Now that he’s fully back on the campaign trail, Biden and Democrats had better pull themselves together.”
Later, at a press conference at Trump Tower in New York, the former president said he “wanted to testify on my own behalf” but that “the theory is that I won’t testify.”
“This is very important, and it’s out of my control,” Trump said of the incident. “This should never be allowed to happen to another president. It should never happen in the future. But this is out of my control. This is bigger than Trump. This is bigger than me. This is bigger than my presidency.”
The Trump campaign also announced Friday that it had raised $34.8 million between 6 p.m. ET, hours after the verdict was read, and late Thursday night.
They stressed that the sales were “nearly double the daily sales recorded by the Trump campaign on the WinRed platform” and that the conviction “awakened the MAGA movement like never before.”
Fox News’ Brooke Singman, Brianna Herlihy and Kyle Morris contributed to this report.
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