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Description: Former U.S. President Donald Trump holds a news conference, a day
after a a New York jury found him guilty of falsifying documents to cover up a
payment to silence a porn star ahead of the 2016 election. Donald Trump is the
first U.S. president to be convicted of a crime.
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 BACKGROUND  >> Testing 1, 2. I am testing the mic. We just updated the mult
box right now. So I'm just testing it, testing 1, 2. Hello. Hopefully, the
other mult box is working. I'm speaking at a normal register. It's not a very
high register or anything like that. So we are speaking at a normal level.
He's probably going to be speaking a lot louder than this. But we're just
trying to get general audio levels right now. And we plugged in to the mult
box to begin with. At start of the day, there was only a 12 channel. Is it
working?  BACKGROUND  >> Thank you very much, everybody. This is a case where
if they can do this to me, they can do this to anyone. These are bad people,
these are, in many cases, I believe, sick people. When you look at our
country, what's happening where millions and millions of people are flowing in
from all parts of the world, not just South America, from Africa, from Asia,
from the Middle East, and they're coming in from jails and prisons, and
they're coming in from mental institutions and insane asylums, and they're
coming in from all over the world into our country. And we have a president
and a group of fascists that don't want to do anything about it because they
could, right now, today, he could stop it, but he's not. They're destroying
our country. Our country is in very bad shape. And they're very much against
me saying these things. They want to raise your taxes by four times, they want
to stop you from having cars with their ridiculous mandates that make it
impossible for you to get a car or afford a car, make it very possible for
China to build all of our cars. It's a very serious problem that we have. We
just went through one of many experiences where we had a conflicted judge,
highly conflicted. There's never been a more conflicted judge. Now, I'm under
a gag order, which nobody's ever been under. No presidential candidate has
ever been under a gag order before. I'm under a nasty gag order where I've had
to pay thousands of dollars in penalties and fines and was threatened with
jail. Think of it. I'm the leading candidate. I'm leading Biden by a lot, and
I'm leading the Republicans to the point where that's over. So I'm the leading
person for president and I'm under a gag order by a man that can't put two
sentences together, given by a court, and they are in total conjunction with
the White House and the DOJ, just so you understand. This is all done by Biden
and his people. Maybe his people more importantly, I don't know if Biden knows
too much about it because I don't know if he knows about anything. But he's
nevertheless the president, so we have to use his name. And this is done by
Washington, and nobody's ever seen anything like it. So we have a judge who's
highly conflicted. You know what the confliction is, nobody wants to write
about it, and I'm not allowed to talk about it. If I do, he said, I get put in
jail. So we'll play that game a little bit longer. We won't talk about it, but
you're allowed to talk about it. I hope you do because there's never been
anybody so conflicted as this. As far as the trial itself, it was very unfair,
we weren't allowed to use our election expert under any circumstances. You saw
what happened to some of the witnesses that were on our side. They were
literally crucified by this man who looks like an angel, but he's really a
devil. He looks so nice and soft. People say, "Oh, he seems like such a nice
man." No, unless you saw him in action, and you saw that with a certain
witness that went through hell. And when we wanted to do things, he wouldn't
let us do those things. But when the government wanted something, they got
everything they wanted. It was a rigged trial. We wanted a venue change where
we could have a fair trial, we didn't get it. We wanted a judge change, we
wanted a judge that wasn't conflicted, and obviously, he didn't do that.
Nobody's ever seen anything like it. We had a DA who was a failed DA, crime is
rampant in New York, violent crime, that's what he's really supposed to be
looking at. Crime is rampant in New York. Yesterday in McDonald's, you had a
man hitting him up with a machete. Whoever can imagine even a machete being
wielded in a store, in a place where they're eating, and he's going rampant
and brag us down watching a trial on what they call crimes. They're falsifying
business records. That sounds so bad. To me, it sounds very bad. It's only a
misdemeanor. But to me, it sounds so bad. When they say, falsifying business,
that's a bad thing for me. I've never had that before. I'm falsifying. You
know what falsifying business records is? In the first degree. They say
falsifying business records, sounds so good, right? It means that legal
expense, I paid a lawyer, totally legal, I paid a lawyer, a legal expense, and
a bookkeeper without any knowledge from me, correctly marked it down in the
books, a very professional woman, highly respected, she testified, marked it
down in the books as a legal expense. So a legal expense paid a lawyer is a
legal expense in the books. It's not sheetrock, construction, or any other
thing, it's a legal expense. Think of that. This is what the falsification of
business records were. And I said, what else are you going to call it? Now, I
would have testified, I wanted to testify. The theory is you never testify
because as soon as you testify, anybody. If it were George Washington, don't
testify because they'll get you on something that you said slightly wrong, and
then they sue you for perjury. But I didn't care about that, I wanted to. But
the judge allowed them to go into everything that I was ever involved in, not
this case, everything that I was ever involved in, which is a first. In other
words, you could go into every single thing that I ever did. Was he a bad boy
here? Was he a bad boy there? And my lawyer said, what do you need to go
through? And all you wanted to do is testify simply on this case. Because I
would've loved to have testified. To this day, I would've liked to have
testified. But you would have said something out of whack, like it was a
beautiful sunny day and it was actually raining out. And I very much
appreciate the big crowd of people outside. That's incredible what's
happening. The level of support has been incredible. So the whole thing is
legal expense was marked down as legal expense. Think of it. This is the crime
that I committed that I'm supposed to go to jail for 187 years for. When you
have violent crime all over the city at levels that nobody's ever seen before
where you have businesses leaving. And businesses are leaving because of this
heads of businesses say, man, we don't want to get involved with that. I could
go through the books of any business person in this city, and I could find
things that in theory, I guess, let's indict him, let's destroy his life. But
I'm out there, and I don't mind being out there because I'm doing something
for this country and I'm doing something for our Constitution. It's very
important, far beyond me. And this can't be allowed to happen to other
presidents. It should never be allowed to happen in the future. But this is
far beyond me. This is bigger than Trump. This is bigger than me. This is
bigger than my presidency. And the people understand it because I just see a
poll just came out the Daily Mail. That was the first one came out, it was
done last night right after the verdict where I'm up six points from what we
already were. We were leading fairly substantially. We're up six points in the
Daily Mail poll. Now, maybe other polls come out and say something
differently. But a lot of people have predicted it because the public
understands and they understand what's going on. This is a scam. This is a rig
trial. It shouldn't have been in that venue. We shouldn't have had that judge.
He should have allowed us to have an election expert. We had the best expert,
most respected expert, head of the Federal Elections Commission. He was all
set to testify. He was waiting for two days. And when it was his turn, Bragg's
people protested and the judge knocked him out, said, you can't testify. He
actually said you can't testify for anything having to do with the trial. You
can say what the federal elections is. Well, that doesn't help. Everybody
knows that, but you can't testify. So essentially, he wasn't able to testify.
Other people weren't able to testify. But with these people, they were able to
use people salacious, by the way, and nothing ever happened. There was no
anything. Nothing ever happened, and they know it. But they were salacious as
they could be, and it had nothing to do with the case, but it had to do with
politics. And do you notice the timing? The timing was perfect. This case was
dead. It was dropped by every agency, every governmental board. It was dropped
by the highly respected Southern District. They said, no, there's no case
here. It was dropped by federal election. And that's what it's about. This is
about a federal election, not a state election. You're not even allowed to
look at it. They took the state and the city and they went into a federal
election. They're not allowed. The people from federal election, Southern
District, and Washington dropped the case. Everybody dropped the case. There
was no case. Cy Vance dropped the case. And when Bragg came in, he said, this
is the most ridiculous case I've ever seen. And who would have a certain
person, again, gag order? Who would have a certain person like this ever
testify? He said, this is essentially one of the worst people I've ever seen
ever to testify. He said, the craziest case I've ever seen, this is Bragg.
Then when I announced I was running for president long time later, they
decided to revive this case. And they got a judge, Judge Merchan, who was
responsible for another case. So it was also brought. It destroyed the life of
a very good man, by the way, destroyed the life of a very good man who went to
prison once. And then they just put him in prison again because they said he
lied. He didn't lie. I looked at the statements he made. In fact, he didn't
remember something and they put him in jail. Again, they've destroyed him.
With me for many years, he was an honorable person. He was an honest man. And
if you look at what he did supposedly, it never happened. There's never been
anything like this over the education of his grandchildren. He didn't report
that he had a car or two cars on his income. I don't know. I wonder how many
people here have cars. I wonder how many people said, I have a car, that's
worth X dollars. How do you even figure it? And I guess you do have to report
it, but I would say probably almost nobody does. Nobody even thinks about it.
They put this man, they destroyed this man. But they put him in jail again
because they didn't want him to testify. They didn't want him to testify,
that's why he went to jail. They put him in jail twice. He's 77-years-old.
Now, normally, I'd say that's an old guy. But I don't feel 77. Nobody ever
says that about me. I'd like them to say, gee, we have to have a little sorrow
for this man because they just don't say that about me, but maybe I'm better
off that way. I think I'm probably better off that way. But they put him in
jail twice. And you have to see what they put him in jail. And he was
threatened by the judge. This man was told you're going to get 15 years in
jail if you don't give up Trump, and he was told that. You're going to get 15
years in jail. And he made a plea deal because he didn't want to spend the
rest of his life, and he was told that viciously. We're living in a fascia
state. He was told that viciously. So you can go to jail for four months, five
months, or you can get 15 years in jail. So do a plea. Almost who wouldn't do
that plea? Everyone does those pleas. It's a horrible thing. There's a whole
group of lawyers that fight that. It's so unfair. But they destroyed his life.
So many other things. You look at Southern District didn't want to bring the
case. Nobody wanted to bring the case. And then, you know who didn't want to
bring the case? Most of all, is Bragg. Bragg didn't want to bring it, but then
he brought it and they tried to make it a different case. They didn't say
legal expense equal legal expense. Again, if I wrote down and paid a lawyer.
And by the way, this was a highly qualified lawyer. Now, I'm not allowed to
use his name because of the gag order. But he's a sleazebag. Everybody knows
that. Took me a while to find out. But he was effective. He did work, but he
wasn't a fixer. He was a lawyer. They like to use the word fixer. He wasn't a
fixer, he was a lawyer. At the time, he was a fully accredited lawyer. Now, he
got into trouble, not because of me. He got into trouble, because he made
outside deals, and he had something to do with taxicabs and medallions, and he
borrowed money. And that's why he went. And then he pled to three election
violations. And as soon as I saw that, I said, I wonder why he did that. He
pled. He took a deal. Now, he took a deal because he wanted to get off. In
other words, I'll take a plea deal and I want to get off, and he wanted to
make a deal with the Southern District. And they wrote the worst report I
think I've ever seen on any human being, other than the report that was
written on James Comey by The Inspector General, a very great inspector
general, actually, wrote a report that was so bad. This one was possibly
worse. The Southern District. The judge didn't let us use it. He said, it's
hearsay. I said, it's not hearsay. Wouldn't let us use it. This is about the
man. But he got in trouble for a very simple reason because he was involved
with borrowing a lot of money, and he did something with the banks. I don't
know if it's defrauded the banks, but something happened. You guys know what
it is. And then in addition to that, he gave up on three things where he
wasn't guilty. In fact, they were going to testify in that, head of the FEC,
the Brad Smith, the election expert. Number 1, raided in the country, who was
going to testify. He took a plea on three things. He just added them in
because that gave him more bargaining power with respect to me. But the three
things that he pled on having to do with the election, and having to do
essentially a little bit with me, they weren't crimes nor is paying money
under an NDA. So we have an NDA, non-disclosure agreement. It's a big deal in
non-disclosure agreement. Totally honorable, totally good, totally accepted.
Everybody has them. Every company has non-disclosure agreements. But the press
called it slush fund and all sorts of other things. Hush money. It's not hush
money. It's called the non-disclosure agreement. And most of the people in
this room have a non-disclosure agreement with their company. It's a disgrace.
So it's not hush money. It's a non-disclosure agreement. Totally legal,
totally common. Everyone has it. And what happened is he signed a
non-disclosure agreement with this person, I guess, other people, but it's
totally honest. You're allowed to make the payment. You can make it anyway you
want. It's a non-disclosure agreement. And he signed that. And there was
nothing wrong with signing it. And this should have been a non case. And
everybody said it was a non case, including Bragg. Bragg said until I ran for
office. And then they saw the polls, I was leading the Republicans, I was
leading the Democrats, I was leading everybody, and all of a sudden, they
brought it back. It's a very sad thing that's happening in our country. And
it's a thing that I'm honored, in a way, I'm honored. It's not that it's
pleasant. It's very bad for family. It's very bad for friends and businesses.
But I'm honored to be involved in it because somebody has to do it, and I
might as well keep going and be the one, but I'm very honored to be involved
because we're fighting for our Constitution. The money that was paid was paid
legally. There was nothing illegal. In fact, the lawyer in creating the NDA,
because at that time, he was a fully accredited lawyer. He wasn't a fixer. I
never thought of him as a fixer. The media called him a fixer, or the
prosecutors called him a fixer. He was a lawyer. And he was fairly good. Later
on, I didn't like what he did. For instance, I didn't like that, when I became
president, he went around and made deals with companies. When I heard that, he
was gone. And he had payments coming to him. And a lot of this involved things
that are very simple. There was nothing wrong. This was standard stuff.
Everything involved was standard. There was no crime here. In fact, I just
watched a couple of the reports. You watch Jonathan Turley, Andy McCarthy,
Gregg Jarrett. You look at all of these people. Mark Levin. All very talented
people, great people. Many more. And they don't know me, essentially. They
don't know me, the legal scholars and experts. But I look at them. I watched
Turley this morning saying, there's no crime here. Everybody says there's no
crime here. Except for this DA that's got the city out of control with crime.
It's absolutely out of control. So we have an NDA that was signed. We have
legal expenses. And here's the thing on legal expenses, you have 100 where
they say, they do a charge. I just recorded this out. Falsification of
business records in the first degree, it sounds so bad. I said, wow. And even
my own lawyers, I get very upset with them because they don't say what it is.
They say, well, falsification of legal records is only a felony. Well, that's
a lot. It's only, they say, a misdemeanor. But they try and bring it up to a
felony if there's two crimes. They have all these different things. The other
thing is they missed the statute of limitations by a lot. Because this was
very old. They could have brought this seven years ago, instead of bringing it
right in the middle of the election. So they missed the statute of
limitations, they did everything. Now, let me give you the good news. The good
news is, last night, we just got a report this morning, in the history of
politics, I believe, maybe I'm wrong, there's somebody will find that I'm
wrong, maybe, but I don't think so. They raised with small money donors,
meaning like $21, $42, $53, $38, a record $39 million in about a 10 hour
period. No, think of it. I like those people. Because so far, I guess it's
backfired. Now, I don't know. I'd rather not have it happen. I don't want to
have it backfired. I don't want to win this thing legitimately, not because
they were stupid and did things that they shouldn't be doing. They shouldn't
have brought this case. They were saying it this morning. This is a case that
should not have been brought. I watched Andy McCarthy say, this is a case that
should not have been brought. And that was this morning. But they all say
that. Every legal scholar has said it. And these are great people. They really
understand the law. The other thing, a poll just came out. The first poll, I
don't know, maybe others will be bad. But a poll just came out a little while
ago, the Daily Mail. Does anybody read the Daily Mail? It's very good. They
have a good poll. At least I like it today. And the Daily Mail just came out
with a poll. And it has Trump up six points in the last 12 hours, six points
since this happened. Who thought this could have? Because the people of our
country know it's a hoax. They get it. They're really smart. And it's really
something. So we're going to be appealing this scam. We're going to be
appealing it on many different things. He wouldn't allow us to have witnesses.
He wouldn't allow us to talk. He wouldn't allow us to do anything. The judge
was a tyrant. And you got to see that with Bob Costello, a fine man, I've
never seen anything like it, and neither has anybody that was in that
courthouse where he demanded that the courthouse be cleared. Now, the good
news is most of the people in the courthouse were the media. And anybody that
was in the media of your affair, you'll say, wow. That was anger. That was
crazed. He was crazed. And the reason that Bob Costello acted a little bit
upset, which I think he has a right to, was that every question he was being
asked was being objected to by the other side and sustained by the judge,
sustained, sustained, I think he did it many times. I don't know what the
number, many times. Even I was sitting there saying, and these were basic
questions. And I never saw anybody treated that way by a judge, and I've been
treated very badly by two other judges, also, because it's all the same thing.
And it all comes out of the White House, crooked Joe Biden, the worst
president in the history of our country. He's the worst president in the
history of our country, the most incompetent. He's the dumbest president we've
ever had. He's the dumbest president, most incompetent president, and he's the
most dishonest president we've ever had. He's a Manchurian candidate. You take
a look at the way he treats China, Russia, so many others. I ended the Russian
pipeline. It was dead. He comes in and he approves it. And he gets 3.5
million, meaning 3.5 million is paid to his family from the mayor of Moscow's
wife. And I said, where did that come from? Nobody wants to talk about it. But
he's a very big danger to our country. And the only way they think they can
win this election is by doing exactly what they're doing right now, win it in
the courts because they can't win it at the ballot box. So we're going to
fight. It's actually, I don't know. It's something where I'm wired in such a
way that a lot of people would have gone away a long time ago. They would have
gone away after impeachment hoax number 1. That was a total hoax. I had great
support from the Republican Party, though. Then you had impeachment hoax
number 2. And then they formed the committee. How about they formed the
committee of thugs? The J-6 committee of thugs. And they took their records
and they destroyed all of the records after the committee was abandoned
because those records were great for us. Now, can you imagine if Republicans
did that? Everybody would have been in jail by now. They call it select
committee. I call it the unselect committee of thugs. They meet, it's 100%
Democrat and two past Republicans that are no longer Republicans that are no
longer in business anymore. Thank you. But it was all Democrats and two
wayward Republicans. Liz Cheney and crying Adam Kinzinger. He cries every time
he goes on television the most emotional human being, I think I've ever seen.
And that was our representatives. These two people were our rep. So they had
all the stuff that they're leaking. And then when it came time to look at the
records like where the police said and the Capitol guard said that I supplied,
think of it, that I recommended as many soldiers or National Guard as you
want, 10,000. If you had 500, you wouldn't have had a problem. The wouldn't
have been a J-6, but Nancy Pelosi and the group didn't want it anyway. So they
have testimony to all of that that I did not attack the secret service agent
in the front of a car. These are strong people. And I supposedly went to the
driver, and I grabbed him around the neck. And he rebuffed me, and then I went
to the other guy who I think is a black belt in karate and he's slightly
younger than me. Maybe 35 years, 40 years, 50 years. And I grabbed him around
the neck and said, he's a black belt in karate. They know how to get somebody
from around their neck. They would have got like this, and that would be the
end of that. Actually, I had a friend that said, you shouldn't dispute that.
That makes you look like the toughest cookie we've ever seen. You should have
let that go on. But the fact is it never happened. It was all made up. And
that was proven to be made up. It proved to be a false story. And they deleted
and destroyed all of that information, every ounce of it. We're dealing with a
corrupt government. We have a corrupt country. Our elections are corrupt, our
borders are open. Our borders are going to be closed very soon. November 5th
is going to be the most important day in the history of our country. Now, when
I say that because my people are always saying, do this, because we're
fighting for America, donaldjtrump.com. I hope everybody watching right now,
donaldjtrump.com. Because it really makes a difference. They have a lot of
money on the other side. I don't know where they get it. Nobody knows where
they get it, but for some reason, they get money. But they're not on the side
of our country. In many ways, I think they hate our country. Who on Earth can
want open borders where people are allowed to pour in from countries unknown,
from places unknown, from languages that we haven't even heard of? We have
people sitting in schools with languages where very few people have ever even
heard of these languages? It's not like Spanish or French or Russian.
Languages unknown. We have people coming from corners of the globe and many of
them are not good people. Many terrorists. Record levels of terrorism. Record
levels of terrorists have come into our country. Record. They've never seen
anything like it. There was a report that in 2019, I don't believe this, by
the way, the media gave it, and it was good for me, believe it or not. They
said in 2019, there were no terrorists recorded that came into our country. I
don't believe that. I don't think that's possible. But actually, 2019, was a
Trump year. I don't believe that that could be possible. But they said no
terrorists came into our country. So let's say it was close. But now record
levels of terrorists, record levels. The highest level we've ever seen of
terrorists are pouring into our country. You have China with just in the last
few months, 29,000 people came in and I looked at them on a line, and they
look like perfect soldiers. They're almost all male from 19 to 25. It looks
like a recruiting exercise. They have beautiful tents, they have propane
stoves, they have cellphones, the best you can buy. I said, what's going on?
It looks like they're building an army right in our country. Now, I don't
think that would happen, right? We're losing our country, and I really think
that this is an event, what took place yesterday with this judge. Look, we
have conflicted but he's a crooked judge and you'll understand that. And I say
that knowing that it's very dangerous for me to say that, and I don't mind
because I'm willing to do whatever I have to do to save our country and to
save our constitution. I don't mind. Thank you. So we will continue the fight.
We're going to make America great again, very simple. When people fight MAGA,
they say, we're going to fight. I watch Biden, we're going to fight MAGA.
We're going to stop MAGA. It's make America great again. That's all it is,
MAGA, Make America Great Again. Our country's in serious trouble. We owe $36
trillion. We were energy independent for the first time ever, and now we're
begging Venezuela for oil, one statistic you have to hear. Venezuela was crime
ridden, Caracas, the cities, crime ridden, two years ago, three years ago.
They just reported a 72% drop in crime in the last year because all of their
criminals, most of them, and the rest are coming in now, the ones that didn't
come in. In Venezuela, their prisons have been emptied into the United States.
Their criminals and drug dealers have been taken out of the cities and brought
into the United States, and that's true with many other countries. The Congo
has just released a lot of people from jail, Congo, Africa, just released a
lot of people from their prisons and jails and brought them into the United
States of America. This is what's happening to our country, and it's not
sustainable by anyone. Little things like our kids can't have a little league
game anymore because you have tents and you have migrants living on the
fields. That's the least of it. People are taking over our luxury hotels,
migrants, and yet our great veterans are living on the streets like dogs.
They're living on the streets but migrants are living in luxury hotels and
cities all over our country run by Democrats. So it's my honor to be doing
this. It really is. It's a very unpleasant thing, to be honest, but it's a
great honor. We're going to do what I have to do. I'm going to do it. That's
why I mentioned the number of $39 million. That's why I mentioned we're up six
points. And we went up a lot over the last month because everybody saw it was
a rigged deal, it was a rigged trial. But we're going to make America great
again. We're going to make it better than ever before. November 5th. Remember,
November 5th is the most important day in the history of our country. Thank
you very much, everybody. >> His address to the nation and his thought process
on what happened in this bogus sham trial that has been taking place in New
York City. Also is reassuring the American people, letting them know that he
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