Posted on 06/11/2023 9:52:42 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Former President Donald Trump has declared his intention to run for the White House in 2024, even if convicted. Trump faces 37 counts related to documents seized from the infamous raid at Mar-a-Lago last August. Trump maintains his innocence, and calls the federal case a “boxes hoax” and a “witch hunt.”
The former President made two campaign stops, giving 90-minute speeches in both Georgia and North Carolina on Saturday. Trump’s supporters lined the side of the highway running parallel to the runway at the airport in Columbus, Ga., where Trump’s jet would be touching down, while others, including Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, greeted him on the tarmac.
Aboard his private plane between stops, Trump told reporters:
I’ll never leave. Look, if I would have left, I would have left prior to the original race in 2016. That was a rough one. In theory that was not do-able.
— Jason Miller (@JasonMillerinDC) June 10, 2023
A conviction would not legally prevent Trump from running for or winning the presidency in 2024. He could theoretically appear on the ballot even while serving a prison sentence. When asked about the prospect of pardoning himself if he were to be re-elected, Trump responded:
I don’t think I’ll ever have to. I didn’t do anything wrong.
The former President added that he also does not plan on taking a plea deal unless there is a scenario “where they pay me some damages.” Trump made criticisms of special counsel Jack Smith and argued that the case against him was politically motivated, saying:
These are thugs and degenerates who are after me.
Trump is the frontrunner in the GOP primary polls, despite facing two indictments since April. The unsealed 49-page indictment marks the first time in U.S. history that a former president has faced federal charges. The charges include allegations of willful retention of national defense documents and conspiring to obstruct justice. Trump said:
Nobody wants to be indicted, I don’t care that my poll numbers went up by a lot. I don’t want to be indicted. I’ve never been indicted. I went through my whole life, now I get indicted every two months. It’s been political.
During his speeches, he criticized the “corrupt” Department of Justice and the Biden administration, describing the indictment as baseless and a form of “election interference” and “demented persecution.”
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WATCH: Resolute Former President Trump Releases Video, ‘I Am an Innocent Man’
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Trump expressed his belief that the indictments were driven by prosecutors who fear facing him in an election, comparing the actions to authoritarian regimes. He accused the Justice Department of exhibiting a level of “Trump derangement syndrome” and compared their actions to abuses seen in “third-world countries.” Trump told the audience:
This vicious persecution is a travesty of justice. You’re watching Joe Biden [try] to jail his leading political opponent – an opponent that is beating him by a lot in the polls – just like they do in Stalinist Russia or communist China. No different.
After speaking at the Georgia state GOP convention, Trump entered a Waffle House restaurant where he announced, “Waffles on Trump!” The Waffle House was filled with supporters, including a local restaurant owner who made his mother’s meatloaf recipe for him.
Secret Service won’t let him eat that, but Ruth Ann’s should put it on the menu. https://t.co/3NFfSYfotO
— BrutalBrittany💕 (@BrutalBrittany2) June 10, 2023
Then Trump posed for pictures with law enforcement before departing for North Carolina. Trump will be arraigned in a federal courtroom in Miami on Tuesday.
You deserve to live in communism.
“Barron 2028”
His last hurrah. He’s gone either 2025 or 2029. If he loses again, that’s it. If he wins, he’ll make it through four years as lame duck and then be done with politics for good. Never leaving? Arrogant statement.
What experience from his first four years did you see that makes you think that?
With recent Monday AM news reports about the charges against Trump and the other politicians such as Clintons and Bidens, it seems the Miami Judge holding the hearing tomorrow has no choice but throw the case out as null and void.
This appears to be an overly aggressive prosecution of Trump, but what exactly did he do to fight the deep state when he was President last time? All I remember is lip service, while he approved their budgets in full, and re-stocked them with bad guys he appointed. None of that Q stuff panned out, it’s been the exact opposite. So I’m not so sure what we’re seeing is reality, myself.
A good case could be made that Trump is a a honeypot for the deep state, and not really a fighter, after all. Show me some deep state scalps he put on the wall after his first four years, if you want me to believe he’s capable of ever getting any, at all.
If there was a scoreboard, Trump would be losing 96-3.
Either. They will do nothing but complain.
I'm not, evidence points to "The Mob" assassinating JFK in cooperation with the CIA.
You’ve really given up on freedom Makes me sick....
If convicted for a made up crime.
Because what they did is 1000 times more corrupt.
I haven’t given up on freedom. I’m recognizing reality. This is war. We’re not shooting at each other (yet?), but all the same rules apply. Many wars have been lost because of decisions made with hearts instead of heads. Do you want that to happen?
I loved Trump as president, but he will be a major liability next year because of the circumstances. I don’t have a crystal ball, but it looks like he will be either behind bars or at a minimum bogged down with court proceedings during the campaign season. Maybe it’s possible that voters will look at him as some kind of sympathetic Nelson Mandela type figure and elect him anyway, but I doubt it.
Biden is the most corrupt and worst president in history. He’s not very well liked, but we have a chance of losing because the communists are smart, ruthless and disciplined. If they thought he was a likely loser, they would dump him in a heartbeat.
The fight the Deep State is waging to get rid of Trump is all the acknowledgement of Trump’s greatness I need.
What “fight” are you talking about. Tough words on the internet, or spoken at a podium? There’s plenty of people doing that. As far as “fighters” thought, who actually put in the work, and use their power to thwart the Deep State, he doesn’t have any real scalps to show. Maybe Comey, but then he replaced him with Wray, who is just as bad if not worse. But that’s it, is it not?
There used to be poster on here, Jack Black, who started a “scoreboard” which listed the number of people on Trump’s team that had been taken out by the Deep State, compared to the ones that Trump had taken out in retaliation. The numbers were something like Deep State 30, Trump 1, when he quit tracking.
Nothing’s changed, except the Deep State still running up the score. At some point, you have wonder, is Trump is trying to win the game.
Nothing’s changed, except the Deep State still running up the score. At some point, you have wonder, is Trump *even* trying to win the game.
You have just confirmed (multiple times) the points I made in Post 17.
Donald Trump is well aware it’s a war of liberty or tyranny few if any in D.C. have the spine he has to win the battle they have their hand out for money and power.
We the people have a duty to offer the help required to get the job done to save America.
MAGA
I think it’s more than that
God moved His hand through Trump and the demons are still screaming in protest.
Their collective reactions have not been normal, sane or rational at all.
This is not like the usual obligatory uniparty opposition response to the “other side” inhabiting the WH.
Not even close.
Something bigger is at work.
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