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presidency. [applause] [ches thank you very much,this is a) me, they can dos to anyone. these are bad people, these are in many cases i believe sick when you look at our country what is happening, where millions of people are flowing in from all parts of the world, nostca, from africa, from asia, from the easm jails and prisons and coming in from mental institutions and insane asylums. they are coming in from all over the world into our country. d we have a president and a group of fci want to do anything about it.

today they could stopthey are d. our country is in bad shape and they are against me saying these things. they want to raise your taxes by four times. cars with their ridiculous mandates to make it impossible for you to get a car or afford a car. ant to make it very possible for china to build all of our cars. it is a very serious problem that we have. we just went through one of many experiencesd a conflicted judge, highly conflicted,re than conflicted j. i am under a gag which no presidti ever been under before. i am under a nasty gag order wherever i've had to pay thousands of dollars in penalties and fines and was threatened with jail.

think of it. i am the leading candidate. i am leading biden by a lot and i am leading republicans to the point where that is over. i am the leading person for president and i am under a gag order by a man who cannot put two sentences together given by the court and they are total conjunction by the white house and the doj. this is done by biden and his people, maybe his people more about it.ly because i do n he is nevertheless the president so we have to use the name. this is done by washington. nobody has ever seen anything like it. we have a judge whis hhlyconfli. you know what the conflict is. nobody wants to write about it and i'm not allowed to talk about it. if i do he said i could put in jail. longer. you are allowed to talk about

it. i hope youthere never been anyoo conflicted as this. as far as the trial itself, it was very unfair. we were not allowed to use our election expert under any circumstances. you saw what happened to se wir side. they were literally man who loon angel, but he is really a devil. it looks so nice and soft. people say he'd seems like such a nice man. if you s him in action, and you saw that with a certain witness that went through heláy. when we wanted to do things he would not let us do those things. when the governmt everything, they got everything they wanted. it was a rigged trial. we wanted a venue change where

we could have a fair trial. we did not get i we wanted a judge change, weudgt conflicted. obviously he did not do that. nobody is ever seen anything like it. we had a faid, crime is rampant in new york, violent supposed to be looking at. crime is rampant in newyesterd'd a man with a machete. who can imagine a machete being store come in a place where they are eating and he is rampant and bragg is down watching a trial on what they call crimes. falsifying business records. to me it sounds very bad. it is only a misdemeanor but to me it sounds so bad when they say falsifying business records.

that is a bad thing for me. you know what falsifying business records is? they say falsifying business means the legal expense, i paid a lawyer, totally legal, i paid a lawyer a legal expense and a bookkeeper, without any knowledge from me correctly market down in the books. a very professional highly respected, she -- markets a legal expense. a legal expense is a legal expense in the books. it is sheet rock construction or any other thing. it is a legal expense. think of that. this is what the falsification of business records were. i said what else are you going to call it? what else are you going to call it? i wanted to testify. the theory is you never testify

-- anybody -- of it were george washington don't testify because they will get you on something you said slightly wrong and they will sue you for perjury. i did not care about that. the judge allowed them to go into everything i was ever involved in, not this case, whis a first. you can go into every single i ever did. was he a bad boy here, was he a bad boy there? all you need to do is testify simply on the case. i would love to have testified. you would have said something out of whack like it was a beautiful nny raining, and i veh appreciate the big crowd of that is incredible what is happening. as been incredible. the whole thing is legal expense was marked down as legal

expense. 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 nobody is ever seen before, where you have businesses leaving. es are leaving because heads of businesses sayt involvh that. i could go through the books of any business in the city and i could find things that in theory, let's indict him, let's destroy his life. i am out there and i do not mind being out there because i'm doing something for this country and our constitutit is far beyo. this cannotn to other presidents. it should never be allowed to happen in the future. this is bigger than trump, this is bigger than mythe people undy

mail, done last night after the verdict where i am up six points , six pots we were leading substantially. we are up sixmaybe other polls d say something differently because the public understands what is going on. this is a scam, this is a rigged trial, it should not have been that venue, we should not have had that judge. he should have allowed us to have an election expert. we had the best expert, the head of the federal elections commission. he was waiting towhen it was h's people protested and the judge knocked him out. he said he cannot testify for

anything having to do with the trial. you can say what federal elections is. that does not help. essentially he was not able to testify. other people were not able to these people were able to use people salacious. by the way, nothing ever happened, there was no anything. nothinhey know it. they were as salacious as they could be it it had nothing to do with the case but it had to do with politics. you notice theg? 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 there is no case here. it was dropped by federal elon this is about a federal election, not a state ection. you're not even allowed to look at it. they took the state in city

and they went into a federal election. theal election southern district in washington dropped the casese, there was no case. when bragg came in he said this is the most ridiculous case i ever seen. like this ever testify? he said is iof the worst peopler seen, ever, to testify. he said this is the craziest case i have ever seen. this is bragg. when i running for president along time later they decided to revive the case and they got a judge■ who was responsible for another case that was also brought in destroy the life of a very good, destroyed the life of a very good man who went to prison once

and then they just put them in prison again because they said he lied. i looked at the statements he made. he did not remember something and they put him in jail. they destroyed■q■ him. with me for many years. honestif you look at what he, it never happened, there has never been anything like this, over the educatover he did not repore had acome. i wonder how money people have rs, i wonder how many people said i have a car? i guess you do have to report i would say almost nobody does, nobody thinks about it. they destroyed this man. they put him in jail again because they did not want him to testify. they did not want him to testify. that is why he went to jail. ■nthey put him in jail twice.

77 years old. normally i would say that is an old, but i do not feel 77. bo i would like to say we have to have a little sorrow for this because -- they just do not say that about me. that way. they put him in jail twice. you have to see what they put them in jail for. he was threatened by the judge. this man was told you will get 15 years in jail if you do not give up trump. that. you will get 15 years in jail cap he made a plea deal because he did not want to spend the rest of his life. we are living in a fascist state. he was told that viciously. you can go to jail for four

months or five months or you can get 15 years in jail. do a plea. who would not do a plea? almost everyone does the please. it is a horrible thingthere is f lawyers that fight that. they destroyed his life. the southern district did not want to bring the case. nobody wanted to bring the case. then you know who did not want to bring the case most of all? bragg did not want to bring the. they wanted to make it a different cas they did not say legal expense. if i wrote down and paid a lawyer -- this was a highly qualified lawyer. i'm not allowed to use his name. he is a sleaze bag. it took me a wild to find out. he wasective, he did work.

he was not a fixer, he was a wyer. at the time he was a fully accredithe got into trouble note 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 is why he went and then he pled the three election violations. as soon as i saw that i said i wonder why he did that? he took a deal. he took the deal because he wanted to get off. in other words, i will take the plea deal and i want to get off and i will make a deal with the southern district. they wrote the worst report i've eveen on any human being other than the report that was written on james comey by the inspector general, a very great inspector general, actually. he report that w sthis one was .

the southern district, the judge did not let us use it, he said it was hearsay. this is about the man. 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 he defrauded the banks. in addition to that he gave up three things were he was noteled testify. he took a plea on three things. the three things he pled on having to do with the and having to do essentially a little bit with me, they were not crimes. they were not crimes. is paying money under an nd

a. we have an nda. they deal, totally accepted. every company has a nondisclosure agreement. the press called it slush fund and all sorts of other things. hushit is not hush money. it is called a nondisclosure agreement. most of the people in this room have a nondisclosure agreement with their company. it is a disgrace. it is not hush money. it is a nondisclosure agreement. totally legal, totally common. everyone has■; it. what happened is he signed a nondisclosure agreement with thispeople, but it is totally honest. u can make the payment anyway you want. it is a nondisclosure ahe signes

nothing wrong with signing it.0v this should have been a non-case. everybody said it was a noncase including bragg. l i ran for office. then they saw the polls that i was leaving the republicans and democrats in everybody and all of a sudden they brought it back. it is a very sad thing that is happening in our country. it is a thing -- in them away -- in a way i am honored. it is not thatt is pleas■0 it is bad for family and friends and businesses butxú i am honord to be involved because somebody has to do it and i might as well ep going and be the one. i am honored to be involved because we are fighting for our constitution. the money that was paid was paid legally. there was nothing illegal. the lawyer come in creating the ndmeime he was a fully accredited lawyer.

i never thought of him as a fixer. the media called him a fixer or thxer. he was a lawyer. he was fairly good. later on i did not like what he did. i did not like that when i became president he went around and made deals with companies. when i heard that he was gone. he had pnt him and a lot of this involve things that are very simple. this was standard stuff. all the standard stuff. everything involved was standard. there i just watched a couple oe reports. he watched jonathan turley, andy mccartney, greg jared, mark levinevery talented people, great people. y9they don't know me, essential.

they are legal scholars and experts. i look at them. turley this morning saying there is no crime here. everybody says there is no crime here, except for this d.a. that has the city out of control with crime. it is absolutely out of control. we have an nda that was signed, we have legalhere's the thing ol expenses. you have 100 -- falsification of it sounds so bad. even my own lawyers, i get very upset withuse they do not say what that is. they say falsification of legal records is only a felony. they say it is only a

misdemeanor. felony if there are two crimes, they have all of these different things. the other thing is they missed the statute of limioy a lot. they could have brought this seven years ago instead of bringing it in the middle of an election. they missed the statute of limitations. the good news is last night we just got a report this morning, and the history of politics, i believe, maybe i am wrong, somebody wrong, they raised from full money donors a record $39 million in 10 hours. [applause] that. i like those figures.

i would rather not have it happen. i don't not want to have it backfire. i want to win this legitimately and not because they were stupid and did things they should not be doing. they should not have brought this case. they were saying this morning this was a case that should not have been brought. i watched eddie mccarthy say this is a case that should not have been brought. that was this morning. they all say that, every legal scholar has said it. esle and really understand the law. aol came out a little while ago, the daily mail, does anybody read the daily mail, ■they have a good pull. i like it today. the daily mail just to met with a -- just came out with a poll

it has trump up six points in the last 12 hours. six points since this happened. who thought this could happen? [applause] the people of our country know it is a hoax. they get it. smart. it is really something. we will be appealing this scam. we will be appealing it on many different things. he would not allow us to have witnesses, he would not allow us to talk. the judge was a tyrant. you got to see that with bob costlo, a ne man, i've never seen anything like it. neither has anyone in the courthouse. he demanded ththe good news is e people in the courthouse for the media. anyone that was in the media come if you are fair, you will say that was anger. he was crazed. the reason bob bit upset, whichk

he has the 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. he did it many times. he but i was sitting there saying -- and these were basic questions. i never saw anybody treated that way by a judge. i've been treated very badly by two other judges because it is all the same thing. it all comes down to the wte bie worst president in the history of our country. the worst president in the history of our country. the most incompetent. he is the dumbest president we've ever had. the most incompetent president. the most dishonest president we haveve a manchurian candidate. look at the russia and many oth.

itn and approves it and gets $3.5 million paid to his family from the mayor of moscow's wife. i said, where did that come from? nobody wants to talk about it. but, he is a very big danger to our country. the only way they think they can win the election is by doing what they are doing now, when cy cannot win it at the ballot box. so, we will show them that we will fight. it is actuai don't know, where■ i am 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 one, a i had great support from the republican party. then you had impeachment hoax number two. then they formed a committee of

th j six committee of thugs. they took their records and destroyed all of the records after the committee was abandoned. because, those records were great for us. can you imagine ifd that? everybody would have been in jail by now. think of it. i call it the un-select committee of thugs. it is 100% democrats and two republicans that are no longer republicans that are no longer in business anymore, thank you. all democrats and two wayward republicans. liz cheney and crying adam kinzinger.■v he cries every time he has on television. he is the human being i have ever seen. and the two people were our representatives. they had all of the stuff they are leaking. then when it came time to look

at the records, like, what the police said and the capital guard said, that i supplied, ink of it, that i recommended as many soldiers or national guard as you want, 10,000. if you have 500 you would have not had a problem. there would not be a january 6. but nancy pelosi and the group wanted it. anyway, they had testimony that i did not attack a secret service agent in the front of the car. ugthese are strong people. i supposedly went to the driver and grabbed him around the neck. and then he rebuffed me and i went to the other guy, who i think is a black belt in karate that is slightlyounger than me, maybe 35 years, 40 years, 50 years, and i grabbed him around the neck. they are a black belt in karate. they know how to get somebody om around her neck.

they would go like this and that would be the end of that. i had a friend that said, you should not dispute that. thatakes y look like the toughest cookie we have ever seen. you should have let that go on. but the fact is, it never happened. it was all made up. it it was proven to be a false story. they deleted and destred a of that information. every ounce of it. we are dealing with a corrupt government. we have a corrupt country. our elections are corrupt, our borders are open, our borders be closed very soon. november 5 will be the most important day in the history of our country. now, when i say, because my people are always saying do this, do this, we are fighting for america. donaldjtrump.com. it really makes a difference. they have a lot of money the

other. i don't know where they get it. nobody knows where they get it but for some reason they get money. but they are not on the sidein e our country. open borders where people are allowed to pour in from countries unknown, from places unknown? from languages we don't even, we have people sitting in schools with languages where very few people have ever even these languages. it is not like spanish or french or russian. languages on -- unknown. we have people cing from corners of the globe. many of them are not good people. many terrorist, record levels of terrorism. record levels of terrorists have come into our country. ■ping like it. there was a report that in 2019,

the media gave it and it was goodthey said in 2019 there wero terrorists recorded that came into our country. i believe that. i do not think it is possible. but 2019 w a trump year. i don't believe that could be possible. d no terrorists came into our country. let's say it wanow, record levef terrorists. have ever seen of terrorists are pouring into our country. china within the last few 29 thousand people came in and i looked at them on a line and they look like perfect soldiers. they are almost all mail from a 19-20 five. looks like a recruiting exercise. they have beautiful and propane stoves. they have cell phones, the best you can buy. i said what is going like they g

an army right in our country. now, i don't think that would happen, right? and i really think this that toy with the judge. he is a crooked judge and you will understand that. i say that knowing it is dangerous for mind, because i m willing to do whatever i have to to save our country and to save our constitution. i don't mind. [applause] so, thank you. we will continue to fight will t again, very simple. when people fight, watch by then say we will fight maga.

that is all that is all it is, make america great again. ouble. we owe $36 triion. we were energy independent for thfiare begging venezuela for o. venezuela was crime-ridden. caracas, the cities, crime-ridden.■ two years ago, three years ago. 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 did not 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. ths true with many other countries. the congo has just released a jail.

congo, africa. they just released a lot of people. from there prisons and■ they brought them into the united states of america. this is what is happening to our country. it is not sustainable by anyone. little things like our kids can ■dhave a little league game anymore because you have tents and migrants living on the ■pfields. that is the least of it. people are taking over our luxury hotels, migrants. yet, our veterans, our great veterans, are living on the ■stres dogs, they are living on the streets. but, migrants are living in luxury hotels in cities all over our country run by democrats. so, it is my honor to be doing this. it thing, to be honest. but, it is a great, great honor. we will do what i have to do.

i will do it. this is why i mentioned the number of $39 million. we are up six points. we went up a lot over the last month because everybody saw it was a rigged deal, a rigged trial. but we will make america great again. we will make >> today, watching c-span's 2024 campaign trail, a weekly round coverage, providing a one-stop shop to discovercountry or saying to vo, along with first-hand accounts from clinical reporters, updated

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