Former President Trump is urging his supporters to join the “Fight for America” in a new video after being convicted in a hush money trial in New York.
“This is the final battle. Together with you, we will destroy the Deep State. We will rid our government of the warmongers. We will rid our government of the globalists. We will rid our government of the communists, Marxists and fascists. We will rid our country of a sick political class that hates our country,” Trump says, his voice drowned out by ominous sounds. Black and White Clip A photo of the former president walking towards the camera.
“We’re going to get rid of the Fake News Media and we’re going to free America from these thugs forever,” Trump’s voiceover continues, in an audio clip that appears to be taken from one of his rallies.
The 35-second video ends with a call to “join us in the fight for President Trump’s America.”
After the jury found Trump guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records, Trump quickly denounced the verdict as “rigged” and insisted he was “a totally innocent man.”
He also moved quickly to use the jury’s verdict to raise funds, writing letters to supporters that he was the victim of an unfair trial as he runs back to the White House in November.
Trump is the first former president to be convicted of a felony and is due to be sentenced in July, just before the Republican National Convention, and could face prison time — though experts say that’s unlikely — and be barred from voting in his home state of Florida.
While a felony conviction does not bar a person from assuming the presidency, the development is likely to upend the presidential election nonetheless, with Trump and Biden set to face off in a rematch in November.
The former president is charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records in connection with hush money paid by former operative Michael Cohen to adult film star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential campaign to silence an allegation of a decade-old affair with Trump. Trump has pleaded not guilty and denies having an affair.
