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>> former president donald trump spoke to reporters after an appeals court decision to delay part of his bonds payment in a new york civil fraud case. mr. trump criticized president biden and the judge presiding over the case, calling his legal issuthis is about 20 minutes. mr. trump: ok. thank you very much. it is a great honor to be with you and we appreciate you have a lot of press outside and i think we are going to start before a lot of them come in, which frankly always makes me happy. ■so a lot of things happened today. this is all about election interference. this is all meaning -- biden ans biden -- this is allthey are doe
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never been done in this country before. have never had anything like it, certainly not at this level. i have been able to find. it does happen a lot in third world countries, banana republics. if you looat we just left, you had -- you have a case which they are dying to get this thing started. the judge cannot go faster. badly and there is tremendous corruption. you have marked pomerantz, -- mark pomerantz, democratic national committee's lawyer. he walked in and he took over the district attorney's office. nobody has ever seen things like that to prosecute trump and then they would not do what hete booy decisions were made, he writes a book about it in the book gets published and everybody is
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reading his book and the judge said, there's nothing wrong with that. if you look, he had a fit over that. we can't do it. that was one of the problems and the judge should have allowed that to instances. he is a radical leftist from the doj who was put into the state, working with letitia james and then was put into the district attorney's office to run the trial against trump. and his thugs also. they can't run an election because of the borders,on, becaf afghanistan, the worst and most embarrassing day in the history of our country. he cannot win because of russia, russia, russia, because of all the problems. because of ukraine being attacked by russia, and he can't win because of the october 7 attack over israel which he have never allowed to
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happen. it would have never happened if i were president. ukraine would have never been attacked if i were president and you would not he if i was president. did not have inflation. so all of these things -- what they do is election interference which is court cases and let's try and tie them up and take as much money as possible. i respect the appellate division for reducing that ridiculous at was put on by a corrupt judge. he ought to be seriously looked at, especially fraudulent evalu. he values mar-a-lago -- to 100 , the biggest experts in the business. he ought to be looked at and james ought to be looked at because she is like the puppet master of the■& judge and you know, this state is losing tremendous prestige. it's losing its people.
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they are fleeing and violent crime is flourishing and we can't have that, can't have that. have that. and it's happening in other cities, but not with what they are doing which is incredible.te case of the trial that we just left, one of the many. every one of them is run by biden and his thugs. so far, it is backfiring because the people of this country understand it. it is backfiring but they are all of these different cases. so ridiculous, the cases. every one of them is ridiculous. you take a look at any one oth f them, it would not make any difference. this is all weaponization of doj and fbi. they rated my house in violation of this thing called the fourth amendment. you are not allowed to do that. in florida, mar-a-lago. ey raided it.
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i can't believe it. nobody can believe it. we will see how that all works out in the end but it is illegal,hat criminal, what theye doing, and it has never been done before in this country. the middle of a political season. we just had super tuesday. we had a tuesday after tuesday already and we had louisiana the other, a couple of days ago, and we won in a record number, the highest number ever recorded, and -- but we are in the middle of ection right now and we are fighting joe biden who is the worst president in the history of our country by far, who has let this country go to hell. the borders, millions and millions of people coming in from prisons, from mental institutions. they are terrorists. manyprisons and mental institut, think of it, and terrorists are coming into our country. i think we have 15 million people alrea. ■?■cpeople don't say that. i say it. i am right, too.
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so we are going through this weaponization of our government to try and knock out somebody's political opponent and so far, based on the polls, is not working at all. the people understand it. we have a man who just -- i don't know how you can have a trial that is going on right in the middle of an election. it's not fair at all. he knows that, too. mccright judge. he wants to do that because they are all trying to damage trump as much as possible. it's having the reverse effect but maybe, someday, it won't. terrible thing to do. he could have started this when i left office. you could have gone back three years, more than that. when i left office, all of these things could have been started so we would not be quibbling over starting this week or that week or two days or three days. it would not have matted. they should have never started
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because there is no case. if you read andy mccarthy's peacons peace, legal scholars all over the world, they say this case is a hoax and it is something that -- it's not even a crime. they said there is no crime and there is no crime. i just say it is a sad day for this country when you have something like this and remember the words, it should have started three years ago if they were going to start it at all and then you would not be quibbling over days and hours. they would not be quibbling at all. they never started it. you know why they didn't start it? they did not know i would be running an i would do and if i were not running or if i were doing poorly like everyone else has done because they are all knocked outcrooked joe biden. if i were doing poorly, this would not be happening and none of these trials would be happening. if i wasn't running, they wou be happening so it is a sad day in our country in many
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respects but the good day is that the appellate division was fair. it's a lot of money still, but ■áthe judge is corrupt, in my opinion, the most overturned judge. he has been overturned five times in this case alone. ruled against me before he even knew anything about the case. the whole case was all about damages and there were no damages. perhapsyou about what took placn terms of a settlement negotiation. those were not the numbers he was discussing. those were not t numbeit is a ds happening in our country and we have to get our country back and we are going to get our country back. that is what■xnovember 5, i bele the most important day in the history of our country. we will get these people out of there. ■we will seal u we will -- drill, baby, drill. we will get rid of the ridiculous electrir nobody has f anything so foolish and so stupid.
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and we will bring crime back to law and order.■@ we are going to get those words, law and order, back, because our cities are a disaster. 2ohe respects the opinion of the appellate division and we will abide by that. we will put up cash or a bond, bond, whatever it is. we will put it up very quickly. we will win the case. maybe i will have todd say a couple of words and you have any questions or anything you want to ask, ok. wherever you may be, please. >> thank-@ump. as you said in court today, we very much believe that starting this trial in april or even starting this trial at any point before theion is completely unfair to president trump. it is completely unfair to the american people who are evaluating who they want to be the next president and we are going to continue to fight.
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we are going to continue to do everything we can to defend president trump in that courtroo and likely said today, we believe that we have a tremendous amount of information now in our hands to help us do and in any event, we certainly feel as if the date that the judge held a day we should go tl and we will continue to fight. quite if you read the article, for many -- i think almost every single one of them, that is not even a crime. they tried -- we are being tried for something that is not even a crime. there no misdemeanor, either. so we have violent criminals people. we have drug dealers all over the place and they go free and they can do whatever they want but they go after trump when it's not even a crime and you see the number of people over there.
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and behind him -- remember this, he was a doj guy. a b doj guy. why is he in a manhattan da's office trying the case? that itself is the complex. ■6he is in the manhattan da's office trying the case. marc pomerantz, when he heard , he was openly hostile. he said that is one of the worst things i have heard and you all covered that and all of a sudden, time goes bytime goes ba sudden, they forget that. but that is a terrible thing. terrible thing, and the judge did not want to rule on that. he said everything was fine and what they did was fine. i don't think it's fine when they take a hillary clinton lawyer and put him in to prosecute me and he does it on the house. want any fee. i don't want any fee. our country has gone down a long way. would you like to say something?
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>> we are gratified by the shows that still is a rule of law in new york and the appellate division is following it. >> [indiscernible] mr. trump: there shall be a trial. this is not an act of criminality. we are going to be appealing. we did nothing wrong just like i did nothing wrong in the other case. my statements financial statements were conservative. they were low, not high. he valued mar-a-lago at a tiny fraction of what it is. hiss the fraud narrative and her narrative because he does whatever she wants. and the judge, what he has done is fraudulent. mar-a-lago■ - you know it very well. he made mar-a-lago into $18 million. i had many offers. they said i will give you $19 million, ok? you can take half of the living room is worth more than that. it's worth anywhere from 50 to
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100 times that amount d ked out or dishonest. one or the other or both. probably both. but he is a disgrace to the system and i think that new york state was helped a lot today by the decision. i will give you an example soci, hot as a pistol and doing great, and it's going public and the new york stock exchange wants to have it badly and i tolddo the k exchange. you treat it too badly in new york. we don't want to do the new york stock exchange and the people at / the stock exchge are very upset about it. the top person is mortified, cannot believe it. he said, i'm losing business because of new york, want to bew york and they don't want to go in the new york stock exchange. you can ask them about it, but you know, how can you do that? i would in the new york stock exchange. it would be a big thing. that would be nice, but people
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are not going to the new york stock exchange now because of what is happenin in new york, because they don't want to be attacked by a thug like this horrible attorney general we have in new york, the worst in the whole country. we will decide about true social and what we do with it, but this is just an example of how this is hurting new york and new york state. >> can you give a little bit more detail about the timing of when you plan -- and how exactly you are planning that? mr. trump: as they say, i have a lot of cash. you have been examining my statements for a long time. and i have much more than that in ch,■3like to be able to use some of my cash to get elected. they don't want me to use my cash to get elected. they don't want]i;v me taking cs out to use it for the campaign. and they looked at it and this judge looked at it. he is such a disgracfo city. again, the most overturned judge. there has never been a case
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where judges have been ovturned five it was four times and now it is five times that he has been overturned but i have a lot of cash and a great company. i mean, to think■ter a company a great company, a company that is doing very well. i have very low debt on buildings, very low debt on this holding.st most will things, i have no debt. look at my greatest assets. i have no debt. i did not even include brand value and the brand value -- i became president because of the brand, let's say. the brand value -- it's one of the mostand i would not swap ity other brand in the world. trump. i don't even put anything down for it. i have very conservative statements valuing mar-a-lago at $18 million instead of what the real value is, which is at least 50 to maybe 100 times more. think of that. this is the fraud.
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they are creating a fraud and they are hurting the state so dly go into the new york stock exchange because i can't do business because i don't want to -- i don't want to do business in new york. stock exchange, i can tell you right now, and they are very fine people -- they are not happy. yes. you are going to say? >> you mentioned the cash you have. those bonds have been introduced. are you going to start putting money into your campaign? mr. trump: of all, it is none of your business, frankly. [laughter] mr. trump: i might do that. i have the option but if i have i would not have that option. i would have to start selling things. i don't have to sell anything because it is company. someday, they will actually report that. i built a phenomenalat is unbelw leverage and unbelievable cash flow. why should i let it cook a judge
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make a decision to give $450 pend very little money on my campaign if i so choose? i will be spending money on my campaign. i might spend a lot money on my campaign. but i should have that option. a crooked judge is saying we should have you post a bond and take all of that money that i cod be■■ spending on the campaign or other things if i want to do other things. we were gratified by the professionalism of the opinion today. it is a very important opinion for new york but the only thing that is going to really solve that problem is when i wane because yohave to win because no company is going to be coming to new york if i don't win that case. that.e■e is a scam, a sham, and a hoax. i don't do that. would be allowed to, possibly. i don't know. if you borrow from a big bank, many of the banks are outside of
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this, asou know. thñ> our country. so you could do that but i don't need to borrow money. i have a lot of money. i built a great company, but i judge and a crooked, horrible -- the worst -- the worst -- i would say, without question, attorney, in the country, the most obnoxious, and the worst attorney general in the whole country, and she did it for politicaleasons back and take a look at her ads. we will stop trump. she knows nothing about me. i never heard her. we will stop tru.we will stop h. vicious. i said, boy, that is a bad one, and then she got elected but then she tried to do it with thgovernt work. she went after the current governor who is much more talented than she is. she went out to the governor. pulled at about 3%, nothing, and after six or seven weeks,
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she pulled out of the race. she ran for governor on what she was doing to me. she thought that would work. it did not work. i just think that it is very important that, you know, this inesses have a choice to go to a lot of places including other countries. they don't have to stay in our country but they can go also to a lot ofe going to texas, florida, tennessee, north carolina. south carolina. and you have a lot of competition. you should not be persecuting people that have done a great job. i paid $300 million approximately over the years in tason. that is a lot of money and you are going to lose those people that pay all that money and you are not even going to have a state anymore. theyil>> are you -- the trial hearing. mr. trump: i don't know that you are going to have the trial. i don't know if you can have a trial like this in the middle of the presidential election and this is aen trial.
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he works for biden. can you imagine, they take a guy out of doj and they put him into the attorney general's offe then d.a.'s office to go after trump. these are all biden trial so i don't know that you are going to have it. i think we are going to get some court rulings. go ahead. >> testify? mr. trump: i have no problem testifying. i didn't do anything wrong. >> [indiscernible] mr. trump: it could also make me more popular because the people it is a biden trial. this is no normal trial. the man who stood up and had the nerve to stand up and take over -- you know, he's been sitting in the background for the last year. today, he went right up front because they figure he buffaloed the writers and the public.
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people forget. they don'ti do. they don't have good memories. but he, from the doj, he was put there toe stood up and he took over the whole office. he has been running the whole thing, sending the letters, doinghings r a long time. nobody has ever seen anything like it. this is all done by the democrat party and it's all done by biden and his group. i don' if biden knows what's happening if you want to know the truth. he probably does. but this is all done by biden and thugs that work for biden and it's a very bad thing, it very dangerous thing for our country. thank youx] all v thank you. [applause] [chatter]
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>> the united nations security council has approved a resolution calling for a cease-fire in gaza. the passage of the resolution comes as united nations officials express■&on over the living conditions of palestinians in gaza. u.n. secretary general took to x shortly after thea security coud a long-awaited resolution on gaza by an immediate cease-fire in the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages. this resolution must be implemented. failure would be unforgivable. the final vote on the resolution was 14 ione opposing and only the u.s. abstaining from voting. ■>uncil voted for a cease-fire in gaza in the israel-hamas war with the u.s. abstaining from the vote. the 15 member council approved the resolution 14-0. later, spokesman john kirby explained the reason behind the u.s. abstention vote.
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today, as you all know, we abstained on a un secuty council resolution calling for a cease-fire in gaza until the end of ramadan and the release of all the hostages. our vote does not -- iit does nn our policy. we have been very clear and consistent in our support for a cease-fires of a hostage deal. that is how the hostage deal is structured and the resolution acknowledges the ongoing talks. we wanted to get to a place where we could support this resolution because the final text does not have key language we thinks as condemning hamas, we could not support it. although because it does fairly reflect our view that a cease-fire and■[ the release of hostages come together, we abstained. the defense minister is here
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as we speak. he will have other meetings while he is in town today and morrow■itainly with the secretary of defense tomorrow. we look forward to having those discussions with him and making it the defense minister that the united states continues to stand with israel as they fight hamas and will continue to work to get those hostages back with their families, where they belong. thank you. >> what was the president's reaction to the decision this week? >>a couple of points that need o be restated. number one, nonbso there is no l 's ability to go after. it does not represent a change
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at all in our policy. we get towe got to decide what r policies. it seems like the prime minister's office is choosing to ■l a perception of daylight here when they don't need to do that. again no change in our policy. >> what does this due to the relationship between the presidents? >> i have no doubt the leaders have is appropriate throughout this conflict. >> thank you. you say it's not ■shift in■'■ policy. by voting for this today.
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[indiscernible] by even abstaining. for the first time in a while the u.s. is abstaining and allowing it to go through. >>@■■ true. nothing could be further from the truth. of course we have israel's back. we arepabilities and weapons systems so israel can protect itbut the other day friday wheni was up here, brian was asking me come was it ok or not ok for china to veto a resolution we drafted friday? when we vmy answer then is goiny
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answer today. . the on we vetoed didcondemn ham. which is why we couldn't support it. but we didn't veto it because in general unlike previous lutions, this one did fairly cap sure what has been our consistent policy which is linking the hostage deal and releofse men and with of course a temporary cease-fire. >> officials today are saying netanyahis acting this way because he's facing political pressure. are there not also pressures fa>> i can't speak for -- >> the democratic party is that part of why? >> no. absolutely not. i've got to take issue with the.
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the president makes decisions based on the national security interest of the u.s. this decision to abstain on this ■: is in keeping with the national security interests of the u.s. and quite frankly is in keeping with the national security concerns of the israeli the border patrol cf yesterday suggested an interview. situation is a national security threat because of the known got a waysd the border -- those that crossed the border. >> if you care about the border and the security of the border, the president sure does, ww ought to get that supplemental past. there's only so much he can do to executive action.
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in order to get more resources, you've got to have funding. >> the national security threat has done a little further. >>hs monitors all available intelligence at the border every single day. we are certainly aware that there could be national security threats that can arise at the border which is why we are arguing so hard to get additional resources and capabilities down there. >> i know you said earlier today the meeting was not going to be a replacement of the delegation. how much of the conversations naturally become about what the intent of the meeting was? >> i fully expect rafa will come up in the context of these con■v■0rsations.he's ge department this afternoon and the defense department tomorrow to talk about rafa. it probably won't be a full
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replacement for what we were hoping to do, a broader and larger delegation of israeli counterp.:■k that's it. i also said earlier just because this meeting is not going to happen doesn't mean we are not going to look for an venue and approach to share those alternatives with the israelis. >> does at this whole episode speak to a poor state of relations between the u.s. and israel right now? >> israel's sll a close ally and they friend. the defense minister is here as we speak in the other room. we still have a very close relationship with our israei partners and the government in place. it doesn't mean we are going to agree on everything. but that's what friends can do. you can disagree, have those conversations. we recognize it is important for israel to defend
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at the same time that we get aid in and hostages out. >> following up, how would y characterize the relationship between netanyahu and president biden? he didn't call president biden to know to to notify him of the cancellation of the delegate visit. are the relations low? >> i would not describe it that way atk i got the same question on friday. these two leaders have known each other for four s. haven't in the past agreed on everything and they don't agree on everything right now but they do agree on one important thing, the and the security of the israeli people and making sure october 7 doesn't happen again. announcer: this evening, the former global vice president, sebastian t., discusses his work in silicon valley and the future of ai. all while congress is
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