the only crime that i have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it. from the beginning, the democrats spied on my campaign, remember that. they attacked me with an onslaught of fraudulent investigations. russia, russia, russia. ukraine, ukraine, ukraine. impeachment hugs number one, impeachment hugs number one, impeachment hugs number two. the illegal and unconstitutional raid on mar a lago right here. the laying through the courts, doj laying through the courts, d0] and fbi relentlessly pursuing republicans. the unconstitutional changes to election laws by not getting approvals from state legislators. the millions of votes stuffed into ballot boxes and all court on government cameras and just recently the fbi and d0] in collusion with twitter and facebook in order not to say anything bad about the hunter biden laptop from howell which exposes the biden family as criminals and which according to the pollsters would have made a 17 point d
for the first time after becoming the first former us president to ever face criminal charges. these were the crowds of supporters who greeted him at his mar a lago estate. he arrived there after pleading not guilty to sa criminal charges at a court hearing in new york. in the speech, he criticised the case against him and repeated the false claims that he d been cheated out of office in 2020 by voting fraud. let s hearfrom him first. the only crime that i have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it. from the beginning, the democrats spied on my campaign, remember that? they attacked me with an onslaught of fraudulent investigations, russia, russia, russia, ukraine, ukraine, ukraine. impeachment hugs number one. impeachment oats number one. impeachment oats number two. the illegal and unconstitutional raid on mar a lago, right here. hoax. live now to michelle fleury in new york. she has been covering the entire day of events for us
hello and welcome to the programme. we begin in the us. donald trump has spoken publicly for the first time since he was charged with 3a counts of falsifying business records, saying the legal action is an insult to america. the former us president earlier pleaded not guilty to hiding damaging information during the 2016 election. speaking to his supporters, mr trump said his only crime was to fearlessly defend the nation from those who would destroy it. in a campaign style speech, he lambasted the biden administration and repeated the false claims that he d been cheated out of office in 2020 by voting fraud. the only crime that i have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it. cheering and applause. from the beginning, the democrats spied on my campaign, remember that? they attacked me with an onslaught of fraudulent investigations, russia, russia, russia, ukraine, ukraine, ukraine, impeachment oaks number one, impeachment oaks number o
new york as a criminal defendant facing 34 felony charges in connection with an alleged scheme to cover up extra marital encounters, one with a porn star , one with a former playboy playmate of the year. we ran the comments from district attorney alvin bragg earlier, so too, will we bring trump to you and jake, whichever donald trump shows up whether he s angry to find defensive, mocking or all of the above, it will be a far different donald trump. from the one earlier today on the 15th floor, the manhattan criminal court building with no one holding the door for him on the way into his arraignment, or the donald trump, who sat stone faced at the defense table for the first what could be many such appearances to come. we don t yet know what the former president makes of this. we could learn shortly, and as we wait for him to speak, we have, as only cnn can a team of correspondents. legal and political analysts help make sense of what happened today and what happens next. let
come on our country come from outside its borders. here is salvador s president. think what you want about former president trump and the reasons he s being indicted, but just imagine if this happened in any other country where a government arrested the main opposition candidate. the united states s about to use, quote, democracy as foreign policy is gone. thousands of miles from new york city in the heart of central america it is very obvious what just happened in that manhattan courthouse. it s obvious to many democrats, too. trump was criminally charged because he is planning to challenge joe biden in the upcoming presidential election. it s really that simple. if donald trump retired in 2020, would he have been arraigned tonight? of course not. most democrats know that. some admit it. politico ran a piece describing president biden s most senior advisers predicting trump will be the nominee. and, now that he has been charged with crimes, will lose the general election. th