people say, would you do this life. people say, would you do this again? and i'd say yes. we are going to make america great again. we had it there and then had to make america great again. we had it there and then bad things happen. bad whether you're a vote, we will take back our country from these fascists and thugs and absolutely make america great again. cheering from the beginning, our america first agenda has been an existential threat to the rotten political class that gets rich and powerful at your expense, erasing our borders, cheating on elections, exporting jobs and squandering blood and treasure on endless foreign wars. everyone said when i was elected,

his personality, you're going to get worse and be fighting the whole world. actually it was my personality that made people not want to fight. first time in 70 years this has happened, we started no wards and we finished some, we defeated the ices caliphate100%. they gave a lot of our military away to afghanistan, now one of the largest exporters of military arms, they sell the things we gave to them. $85 billion. many soldiers horrifically wounded and we left many americans behind. they moved at the military first, it's supposed to be the opposite, you move out the military last. thwarting the will of

the american people,, not even believable. a witch scam, hoax. it's called election interference and they are doing the best they can with it because who the hell would vote for them with the policies they have of open borders and no voter id. the report shows lay spied on my campaign. imagine if it was the other way around. they spied on my campaign and we caught them, they forged false evidence to get a surveillance warrants, the fbi offered $i surveillance warrants, the fbi offered $1 million for a fictitious dossier written by a foreign spy to try and frame me for treason and now they are trying to do it again. these people don't stop. they are bad and we have to get rid of them. they put our country through hell and they knew it was all a lie the

entire time, the new it is all a lie. remember, it is not me they are going after, it is somebody else, and that person will not be able to withstand the fire. if it is not to be it will be somebody else and they will not withstand the fire because the fire doesn't just stop with will not withstand the fire because the fire doesn'tjust stop with me. it will go on against any conservative, any republican, anybody other than them but they want the power because the also want to destroy our country, there can be no other reason. i know them all and in many cases even admit it, they come up and say, how do you take it? we take it and fight back like nobody has ever fought before. think of it. we had russia, russia, total fake. all made up by hillary clinton, the dossier was by clinton

and others, democratic party, dnc, so we had russia, russia, ukraine, ukraine, the no collusion witchhunt, they found after two and a half years there was no collusion. impeachment hoax, number one, perfect phone call. number two, the illegal censorship of the hunter biden laptop from hell. remember the laptop from hell? when 51 intelligence officials falsely said it was rushing this information. everybody knew that wasn't true. that was another form of cheating on the election. a lot of the great pollsters, a couple of them here tonight, i mean, you look at what they said about it. 17 point difference. it is incredible, but the 51 intelligence agents wide. now the 51 intelligence agents wide. now the marxist left is once again using the marxist left is once again using

the same corrupt doj the marxist left is once again using the same corrupt d0] and corrupt fbi and the attorney general and local district attorneys to interfere in our elections at a level that our country and a few countries have ever seen before. they are cheating and crooked and corrupt. these criminals cannot be rewarded, they must be defeated, have to defeat them. because then the end they are not coming after me, they are coming after you and i am just standing on their way. after you and i am just standing on theirway. here after you and i am just standing on their way. here i am and i always will be. cheering thank you very much. the ridiculous

and baseless indictment of me by the biden administration's weaponised department ofjustice will go down as among the most horrific abuses of power in the history of our country. many people said that, democrats have even said it. this vicious persecution is a travesty of justice. you are watching joe biden... biden is trying to jail his leading political opponent, who is beating him by a lot in the polls, just as they do in stalinist russia or communist china, no different. 0ur or communist china, no different. our country has gone very bad and think of it, three years ago we were energy independent with low inflation, we had low taxes and low interest rates, we had the greatest economy and history. think of it, and i could stand up here all day long and just talk about all of the great success we had, and now we

have everything the opposite. inflation is killing our country, energy is ridiculous... we are getting energy from venezuela. no one can even believe it. i never thought such a thing could happen to america. as far as the joke of an indictment it is a horrible thing, a horrible thing for this country. the only good thing about it as it has driven my poll numbers way up, can you believe it? cheering it has driven way up and somebody said the fundraising is through the roof. that is less important, but i will tell you it has really driven us through the sky. we are really winning big, beating the hell out of the republicans the hell out ofjoe biden. if i wasn't, there would be no witchhunt, there would be no

indictment. if i was losing, we are winning by a lot against the democrats, if i were losing, they are the party of this information. they say we want to run against trump, we want to run so badly against trump. we won the first time and then we did better the second time than the first time, we won by many millions more votes, much better. the most votes ever in the history of our country and today we are more popular than we were in the 2020. we are going to get numbers that are absolutely incredible. federal law enforcement should never have been involved in this matter but they got involved and we just can't let that happen. they got involved with twitter and with facebook. the pollsters say it may be a 17 point difference, and then they say i lost. we didn't lose, we won by a lot, but they say i lost by 20,000 votes. we would come here for

rallies and come to other states for rallies, we would come to georgia for a rally with 40, 50,000 people. they would come and not fill up the circles and then you hear at the end, they clip to you. we won alabama and a record number, we won south carolina any record number, those professionals say it is not possible to win alabama in the record, south carolina in a record and lose georgia just by a tiny little bit. so you got to watch that. we are all going to be watching. and as president all of my documents fell under what is known as the presidential records act which is not at all a criminal act. everything is alljudged by the presidential records act and this whole fake indictment, they don't even once mentioned the presidential records act which is really the

ruling act which in this case falls under 100% because they want to use something called the espionage act. doesn't that sound terrible? i got a box, the espionage. the espionage act of 1917. think it was put in there by world war i, boxes, and biden has got 1850 boxes, got boxes in chinatown dc, boxes all over the place, he doesn't know what the hell to do with them, and he is fighting them on the boxes, he doesn't want to fight the boxes and then they say trump is obstructing. it is a sad day, sad day for the country. last night, last night i said that our country has tears because of what's happening, we have fake elections, we have no borders, we have inflation, we have everything is just going wrong. there has never

been anything like it in the history of our country, we have never done like this, and the division is so bad because what they do it so bad and are angry and theyjust keep doing it and sometimes you need strength, you have to have strength, more than just normal strength, and we have to get a change because we are not going to have a country left. remember i used to campaign and i would say that we are going to end up being venezuela on steroids and that is exactly what has happened to our country, our country is going to hell. i was going to change the name of our campaign to keep america great. that's not as good as maga. maga! keep america great is kag. kag is never going to compete with maga. but we couldn't say keep america great because a

country is not great, we are left out all over the world, we are no longer respected. three years ago we were respected like our country has never been respected before. they also don't mention redefining lawsuit that was brought against bill clinton and it was lost by the government, the famous socks case that says he can keep his documents, they don't mention that. these are minor details and that is the ruling law. when i left office and was moving to florida, boxes were openly sitting on the white house sidewalk. everybody was taking pictures of them. this isn't somebody smuggling boxes out. pictures of them you've all seen, it's setting with people from gsa and other people waiting to put them on a truck, but they were literally sitting outside of the white house waiting for a truck to come and the truck came and it was here for a long time and they put it in and brought it down to florida

and they make it sound like it is a big... if that is a spy operation or something bad, we did a very poor job, i will tell you. something bad, we did a very poor job, iwill tell you. first something bad, we did a very poor job, i will tell you. first thing you learn is don't put them on the sidewalk outside of the white house. as a former president we were negotiating with the national archives, just as every other president has done, and the next thing i knew, mar—a—lago was raided by gun toting fbi agents. we were negotiating. and again meanwhile biden has troves of classified documents from his time as vice president, which is much tougher actually. it is actually a much tougher standard. and even as a senator and the senators are not allowed to bring classified documents and i heard a senator who happens to be a democrat, he was beside himself, he couldn't believe that biden took classified documents

as a senator, it is a real no no, can't do it. i was amazed i saw him, i am sure he changed his tune when he got the hell beat out of him when he got the hell beat out of him when he went back into his beautiful marble clad office. many of biden's documents were in chinatown and many were in places you don't want to have documents but i hear how wonderful he did, think of it, 1850 boxes he had. mine is peanuts, but you saw mine because they were on that sidewalk, and they paid over $1 million a year and they are still... you know, he was paid by china, really, because china makes a big payment to the area where he has of the vast preponderance of documents, and he makes about $1 million a year paid by china and these documents were strewn all over the place, and then he has documents strewn on his garage floor, where he has the now

famous corvette, you know his beautiful corvette. there was no security there, they had a garage door that you could cut it with a scissor, they didn't have secret service, i have secret service all over mar—a—lago and mar—a—lago is strong and powerful. it was actually built by marjorie merriweather post and ef hutton, remember when he speaks, people listen, one of the greatest ads ever, but he built it and it was built as the southern white house actually underjimmy carter give it up, he said it was too expensive. i said thank you very much, we have to get that. thank you, jimmy, thank you very much. but that was actually built as the southern white house. it's a very powerful but we have great people, secret service all over the place and that's really like it. but an absolute declassification authority

as president, biden had no authority and had no right to possess those documents, none whatsoever, yet nothing happened to crooked thejoe with all those many, many times. there was an article recently that all presidents take documents, they bring them out, all of them, virtually every one of them in fairly modern times. you look at hillary clinton, set up an illegal private server in her basement specifically to break public disclosure laws that would expose her and herfamily�*s finances. she stored vast quantities of classified and sensitive information, some of it leaking into anthony wiener�*s computer. anthony weiner, that was a real beauty. much of it went into anthony wiener�*s computer. that is probably the last... i'm not sure, i think i would rather have it on hunter biden and's computer than

anthony weinerfirst hunter biden and's computer than anthony weiner first computer. and when cut hillary deleted and acid washed 33,000 e—mails in defiance of a congressional subpoena, she already had lisa pienaar, and her aides smashed and destroyed iphones with a hammer and yet the fbi and doj protected her, they did absolutely nothing in her case. the fbi and doj largely did not issue subpoenas, they did not use a grand jury, they did not issue search warrants and comey declared there was no problem and no reasonable prosecutor would ever bring a case like that. she knocked out 33,000 e—mails. and hillary wasn't indicted, she should have been, but she wasn't invited. she was protected by the democrats. biden was not indicted and what he has done is terrible. they like to say,

what trump did. i was impressed, it looked so orderly and nice. somehow somebody turned over one of the boxes i said, i wonder who did it, that the fbi do that? they also did something where they put documents all over the phone and took pictures and try to pretend like i did it and had to apologise, they did it. remember that famous picture. but the box that was turned over, it had newspapers and pictures and clippings and all sorts of things, no one saw the documents there. 0nly donald trump is indicted and they take one charge and turn it into 36 charges. you saw that, everybody was amazed, lawyers on television, they are not usually the best lawyers but some are very good, they say they have never seen anything like it, they took one charge and made it 36 different times, and we have a thug thatis different times, and we have a thug that is in charge. this is a

political hitjob. republicans are treated far differently at the justice department than democrats. these are the same people that caused the lowest learner catastrophe, you know who i'm talking about. jack smith. what do you think his name used to be? i don't know, jack smith, sounds so innocent. he is deranged but he is the one that caused the lois lerner catastrophe with the irs, going after evangelicals and christians and great americans of faith, and they had to pay up and had to pay dearly for it when they got caught. and this is the same guy, deranged jack smith, and i watched him yesterday go up and talk and he talked for about two and a half minutes, he was shaking and so scared, he didn't want to be there,

because ultimately these are cowards, they are cowards. and he is a big trump hater, openly he is a trump hayter and his wife is even more of a trump hater, i wish her a lot of luck, but should he is a bad trump hater and you shouldn't put people like that in. they look at biden and they look at mike pence, he had classified documents, no problem. they look at biden, he has so many classified documents they don't know what to do and he is trying to prevent them from seeing it, that his obstruction, but we didn't do any obstruction. this is a sick nest of people that needs to be cleaned out immediately, get them out. cheering

we now have two standards ofjustice in our country, the democrat communists want to jail their opponents while they protect the murderers that pro—war cities they and night, and other brazen criminals, what is happening to your beautiful atlanta is so horrible... that is donald trump, who as you have been watching is addressing a republican party convention in columbus in georgia. the former us president donald trump and it is actually his first public appearance since being indicted on federal charges for his handling of classified documents. this was a 37 count indictment that was made public on friday which accuses him of keeping sensitive documents at his mar—a—lago property and as you

probably heard if you were listening to his words, he denies any wrongdoing and again reiterated what he said before in terms of the indictment being what he called a witch hunt, so he has made those claims previously in written form but this is his first public appearance since that indictment and he also talked about various other things, he has mentioned before, including repeating the allegations of widespread electoral fraud and allegations that the votes were stolen from him in the 2020 election, and of course these are unsubstantiated allegations. there has been no evidence for those claims and we will be getting more reaction to what mr trump has been saying later on from her north america correspondent but for now,

let's leave georgia and we will come back to the uk because here there are calls for unity within the conservative party after boris johnson's decision to stand down as an mp. three tory mps have announced their resignations in the past 24 hours. they trigger a series of by—elections and raise questions about the future of rishi sunak�*s government. the latest to announce he's stepping down with immediate effect was nigel adams — a big supporter of former prime minister boris johnson. on friday another political ally of mrjohnson, nadine dorries, announced she was quitting, to be swiftly followed by the former prime minister himself, claiming he was the victim of a "witch—hunt". that's after he received an advance copy of a report into whether he deliberately misled parliament over covid lockdown parties at downing street. three by—elections will now be held at a time when rishi sunak�*s conservative party is languishing in the opinion polls. 0ur political correspondent, damian grammaticas, has the latest. is this the end of a political career? "a witch—hunt," borisjohnson says, forced him out.

"a kangaroo court," he has called parliament's investigation. in truth, he saw its conclusions before we did, and decided to go. it was this, partygate, mps were probing — whether mrjohnson lied to parliament. he has gone before it's published. he feels he can't be held to account for what others did when he wasn't present. he didn't know? that is his version, that is his story. i am merely... laughter. ..i am merely acting as a reporter. so today, labour out campaigning in uxbridge. they smell a chance to snap up the seat borisjohnson once had a big majority in, but has abruptly vacated. borisjohnson has shown himself to be a coward once more. he has not held his hands up and taken responsibility as he should do. the privileges committee, a well—respected committee made up of a majority of tory mps, and he hasjust tried to trash them and say, "i've got no responsibility, "i've done nothing wrong."

all this means trouble for mrjohnson's successor here. that may have been part of his aim with this resignation. rishi sunak is blamed by some of borisjohnson's supporters for abetting his downfall. today, ministers were trying to keep out of things. the determination of whether or not he should stand down was purely a decision for the former prime minister, and that's where that rests. our focus is on delivering on the priorities of the british people. that is where the prime minister's focus is, that is the priority of all of government. that borisjohnson is divisive, for some a chaotic liability, for others an election—winner, was clear for those in uxbridge today. argh. taking the easy option out, isn't he? instead of standing there and defending himself and everyone else, he is doing the wrong thing. i don't like him in any case. i think it's the best thing that could happen, get rid of him. i would vote for him tomorrow. great man, he has a huge amount . of support all over the country. and it has been a witch—hunt.

he'll be back, i reckon. and more by—elections loom. nigel adams, a loyal supporter of borisjohnson, today said he was also standing down. nadine dorries quit yesterday. she thought she was in line for a seat in the lords in his resignation honours, but wasn't on the list released by downing street. what all this means for rishi sunak and the conservatives is that new tensions are swirling between factions in the party, and by—elections are coming, just when the conservatives are languishing in the polls. losing any of those could lead some tory mps to question, as borisjohnson did in his resignation letter, the direction of the party and rishi sunak�*s leadership. rishi sunak should above all, borisjohnson and his backers think, be offering tax cuts. what we want is reassurance from the prime minister, that that is very much his agenda and then examples of how he is pursuing that agenda because clearly some of my colleagues don't feel they are very welcome on the journey, so that three

of them have now decided to get off the bus altogether. and worse for rishi sunak, borisjohnson has hinted he might try a comeback. earlier, i spoke to our political editor about what this means for rishi sunak and the future of his government. parties call for unity when there isn't any unity, and that's precisely where the conservative party finds itself tonight. so it faces three by—elections atjust a point where it is really, really struggling in the opinion polls. so three people on their own side choosing to inflict upon the party, at a difficult time, the views of the electorate when they are miles and miles behind the labour party in the national opinion polls, and in some places liberal democrats performing very well, too. so, speaking to conservative mps and i've been making dozens and dozens of calls and zapping out loads and loads of whatsapp messages for the last 24 hours or so, there's a deep sense of frustration and anger at what many see as the selfish acts of those who have decided to resign.

now, of course, it is their prerogative to be able to do that, and we haven't yet heard in any detail at all from any of them about precisely what has motivated that. yes, we had the statement from borisjohnson last night, but we're yet to track him down with a camera to ask him questions of our own, and the same applies as far as nadine dorries and nigel adams are concerned, to get that full account. but the consequence we are well aware of, and conservative mps are well aware of, and from rishi sunak�*s perspective, the prime minister, he needs this like a hole in the head. it's a nightmare, just the sort of thing he does not want to see, because the one thing he's managed to bring to government in the last six or seven months, he'd point to other achievements as well, of course, but the one thing that i think even his biggest critics would acknowledge is a sense of stability. things don't seem quite so stable tonight. and how are the three by—elections that will now be happening adding to that nightmare?

because i suppose it's notjust about the cost and the time that they take, is it? it's not, although those two factors are worth weighing up, cost and time and attention. so money that the party might otherwise think would be better spent in a general election campaign will be spent in by—elections. time that would be better spent thinking about governing or thinking about the general election will be spent on those by—elections, too. and attention means that cameras and interest and intrigue will point in the direction of the seat in west london that borisjohnson is vacating, mid—bedfordshire, where nadine dorries is leaving as the mp, and selby and ainsty in north yorkshire, where nigel adams is. and attention matters in politics because there's an opportunity cost attached to intrigue pointing in a particular direction — it means it doesn't point somewhere else. so if the prime minister would rather be talking about other things, and my goodness he would, the attention is going to be in at least three corners of the country, and i say at least