Convention in milwaukee. Its the third time hes been chosen as the standard bearerfor his party, but now, more than ever, he is at the zenith of his popularity. The image from saturday of the former president , fist held high, Blood Dripping from his ear, reinforces within the republican base the belief that their man is a fighter. Everything they believe Joe Biden is not. And just hours ahead of this appearance on stage tonight, his position was further strengthened by a districtjudge in florida, who threw out one of two federal cases he was facing, the classified Documents Case that many thought was the strongest of the four. Total vindication, says trump, that the investigation was a political witchunt all along. He could not have scripted it better. In the last few minutes, the Roll Call of the delegates who will nominate Donald Trump as their candidate has got under way, State By state. Remember, the former president clinched the nomination in march, having amassed the 1,215 deleg
at a later date. trump who has denied all charges, spoke shortly after surrendering himself to authorities, defending his actions after the 2020 election. it isa it is a sad day for america. this should never have happened. if you challenge an election i think you should be able to challenge it. i thought election was a rigged election, a style election. you have many people over the years to the same whether it is hillary clinton or stacey abrams, or many others. when you have the great freedom to challenge, you going to have to be able to otherwise you have a very dishonest election. what has taken place is is a travesty of justice. we did nothing wrong, i did nothing wrong. everybody knows i did not have that support. they are trying to interfere with an election. that has never been anything like it in our country before. this is that they way of campaigning and if this is one instance but you have three other instances, it is election interference, so i want to thank you
to authorities. the most notable, of course, is former president donald trump. he appeared at the fulton county jail on thursday evening to be fingerprinted and have his mugshot taken. he then posted that mugshot on x, formerly known as twitter, positioning himself squarely as the wronged party. he will return at a later date to defend himself in court. he defends all charges against him, including racketeering and making false statements. all this is his rivals try to stand out from the pack as they debated in milwaukee, absent mr trump himself. our bbc s hymns have been on the ground all week, covering every twist and turn, this is how the dramatic day at the fulton countyjail on the fulton county jail on thursday. right now we just have a huge medicaid coming in. iam right now we just have a huge medicaid coming in. i am going to get out of the way and these are medicaid coming in. i am going to get out of the way and these are a medicaid coming in. i am going to get out o
trump. he appeared at the fulton county jail on thursday evening to be fingerprinted and have his mugshot taken. he then posted that mugshot on x, formerly known as twitter, positioning himself squarely as the wronged party. he will return at a later date to defend himself in court. he denies all 13 charges against him, including racketeering and making false statements all this is eight of his rivals try to stand out from the pack as they debated in milwaukee, absent mr trump himself. our bbc team have been on the ground all week, covering every twist and turn. this is how the dramatic day unfolded at the fulton county jail on thursday. right now we just have a huge motorcade coming in. i am going to get out of the way, and these are a large number of police motorcycles coming in. there has been a very obvious uptick in security. we have seen some secret service here, sheriff s officers as well as police. so i want to thank you for being here. we did nothing wrong at all,