Former President Donald Trump expressed his disapproval towards Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and New York Judge Juan Merchan following his conviction on Thursday. After extensive deliberations lasting nearly 12 hours, a Manhattan jury consisting of seven men and five women found Trump guilty on 34 counts of falsification of business records. Trump criticized Merchan, alleging corruption, and labeled the trial as a “disgrace.”
“It’s a rigged trial, a disgrace. They wouldn’t give us a venue change. We were at 5% or 6% in this district, in this area. This was a rigged, disgraceful trial,” Trump said. “The real verdict is going to be November 5th, by the people, and they know what happened here, and everybody knows what happened here. You have a Soros-backed DA, and the whole thing, we didn’t do a thing wrong, I’m a very innocent man and it’s okay, I am fighting for our country, I am fighting for our constitution.”
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President Trump reacts to the verdict:
“The whole country is being rigged right now. This is being done by the Biden Administration in order to hurt or wound a political opponent."
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“Our whole country is being rigged right now. This was done by the Biden Administration in order to wound or hurt an opponent, a political opponent, and I think it is just a disgrace, and we’ll keep fighting, we will fight to the end and we will win because our country has gone to hell,” Trump continued. “We don’t have the same country anymore, we have a divided mess. We are a nation in decline, serious decline. Millions and millions of people pouring into our country right now from prisons and from mental institutions, terrorists and they are taking over our country. We have a country that is in big trouble. This was a rigged decision right from day one with a conflicted judge who should have never been allowed to try this case, never. And we will fight for our constitution. This is long from over. Thank you very much.”