"The only crime I've committed was defending America from those who want to destroy it. My indictment is an insult to the United States."
Donald Trump returns to his Mar-a-Lago bunker a few hours after giving himself up to the New York court to hear the 34 charges against him in the Stormy Daniels case and addresses his supporters gathered in one of the resort's halls .
A speech lasting just over half an hour, during which the tycoon appeared tried and less combative than usual.
An unprecedented day in US history and the accusation castle of the prosecutor Alvin Bragg who accused him of an attempt of "conspiracy to undermine the integrity of the 2016 presidential elections" by buying the silence of the porn star, seems to have weighed on the former president's usual aggressiveness. of former Playboy bunny Karen McDougal and a Trump Tower doorman threatening to reveal his alleged illegitimate child.
However, the tycoon has not given up on launching the usual attacks against his accusers and the "corrupt judicial system, which has now become illegal", despite the warning from the New York prosecutor not to incite violence.
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The stages of the case of Trump and the porn star Stormy Daniels - World
Here are the salient stages of the 'sex gate', the 130,000 dollars paid to porn star Stormy Daniels to buy her silence on the affair she had with Donald Trump in 2006. (ANSA)
"I never thought something like this could happen in America," Trump said, as his supporters yelled "Usa, Usa!".
On stage with the former president, his sons Eric and Donald jr, while his wife Melania, who also accompanied him to Manhattan, and his daughter and former councilor, Ivanka, were absent.
After reiterating that all the investigations against him are "political persecutions", the tycoon covered with insults
one by one the prosecutors involved: from Bragg, "paid by George Soros", to Letitia James to Jack Smith, engaged in the investigation into the top secret papers brought from the White House to Mar-a-Lago, whom he defined as a "crazy" .
All, according to the former president, are tools of the "radical left" who aim to "stop it at any cost".
The investigation by the Atlanta, Georgia prosecutor's office is also "a false case of interfering in the
2024 elections and should be closed immediately" for Trump who defined the phone call in which he lobbied to overturn the 2020 vote as "perfect" in that state.
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The New York prosecutor asks for witness protection: the tycoon's threatening posts (ANSA)
He then moved on to attack Joe Biden and his former opponent Hillary Clinton for 'gate email'.
"He wants a third world war", thundered Trump against the American president, arguing that "when he was a senator he did all sorts of things but nobody arrested him".
Before going on stage at his resort, the former president had reiterated for the umpteenth time that, in the case for which he was indicted in Manhattan, "nothing was done illegally" accusing Bragg "of having shut down New York, mobilized 38.00 agents and spent $200,000 of city funds on a $130,000 legal non-disclosure agreement."
It is a "farce" investigation, Trump had attacked in a phone call with his supporters
back from New York, assuring his supporters that "we've been winning for eight years and will continue to win."