Former US President Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records in a New York court. Addressing supporters at his Florida home, Donald Trump said: “I never thought something like this could happen in America. The only crime I committed was to fearlessly defend our nation.”
“Our country is going to hell,” Donald Trump said as a crowd of supporters applauded him as he said his campaign was the victim of election interference and hit out at New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg for bringing criminal charges against him.
“This bogus case was filed only to interfere with the upcoming 2024 elections and should be withdrawn immediately,” he said. Donald Trump, the front-runner in the race for the 2024 Republican nomination, took aim at Joe Biden’s administration, saying “radical left” prosecutors were trying to get him “at all costs.”
Prosecutors have accused Donald Trump of arranging payments to two women before the 2016 US election to suppress the publication of their sexual encounters with him. Donald Trump thus became the first sitting or former US president to face criminal charges.
The prosecutor said, “Defendant Donald J. Trump falsified business records in New York to conceal an illegal conspiracy to undermine the integrity of the 2016 presidential election and other violations of election laws.”
Donald Trump also made a number of social media posts, including one threatening “death and destruction”, prosecutors added, as a judge asked the former US president to “please refrain from making statements that could incite violence or civil unrest”.
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