Them. Trump calling the trial a witch hunt to keep him off the campaign trail. Watch. This is a biden witch hunt to keep me off the campaign trail. I should be in georgia now. I should be in florida now. I should be in a lot of different places right now campaigning and im sitting here. And a this will go on for a long time. Its very unfair. This is a case that nobody wanted to he bring including alvin bragg. It was just at the last second this never happened before where the state tries to assert itself in federal elections. Nobodys ever seen it. Maria it was former Biden Justice Department Official delivering the prosecutions Opening Statement as the judge ruled if trump testifies in his own defense. Other cases against him are fair game to be brought up. I think this is interesting that its michael colangelo. He served as u. S. Associate attorney general under president Joe Bidens Administration and then he left that position to become a state prosecutor in alvin braggs office. So r
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