Trump tries to move past guilty verdict by attacking criminal justice system

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Trump, as defiant as ever, said the verdict was illegitimate and driven by politics and sought to downplay the allegations underlying the case.

Donald Trump sought to move past his historic criminal conviction on Friday and build momentum for his bid to return to the White House, with fierce attacks on the judge who oversaw the case, the prosecution’s star witness and the criminal justice system as a whole.

“It’s reckless, it’s dangerous, it’s irresponsible for anyone to say this is rigged just because they don’t like the verdict,” Mr Biden said.Trump has made his legal woes the centrepiece of his campaign message as he has argued, without evidence, that Mr Biden orchestrated the four indictments against him to hobble his campaign.

He said the verdict was illegitimate and driven by politics and sought to downplay the facts underlying the case.When Trump emerged from the courtroom immediately after the verdict on Thursday, he had appeared tense and deeply angry, his words pointed and clipped. In his disjointed remarks, Trump attacked Mr Biden on immigration and tax policies before moving to his case, saying he was threatened with jail if he violated a gag order.

He also blasted the judge in the case, saying his side’s chief witness had been “literally crucified by this man who looks like an angel, but he’s really a devil”. On Friday morning, Trump’s campaign announced it had raised 34.8 million dollars from the time the verdict was announced to midnight. On Tuesday, Trump railed that not even Mother Teresa, the nun and saint, could beat the charges, which he repeatedly described as “rigged”.

 

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