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Trump Puts His Legal Peril at Center of First Big Rally for 2024


WACO, Texas – Former President Donald J. Trump spent much of the first major political rally of the 2024 campaign portraying the indictment that a New York grand jury is expected to bring. His opinion was the result of what he claimed was a Democratic Party plot to persecute him, vehemently arguing that the United States was becoming a “banana republic”.

As crowds in Waco, Texas, waved red and white signs that read “Witch Hunt” on the back, Mr Trump spent a long part of his speech talking about his own legal danger rather than his own. his vision for a second term, voting himself as a victim of the “weaponization” of the justice system.

“The abuses of power we are witnessing at all levels of government will be considered one of the most shameful, corrupt and depraved chapters in American history,” he said.

The speech highlighted how Mr. Trump tends to frame the nation’s broader political interests around whichever issue affects him personally the most. Last year, he sought to make his 2020 election fraud lies the most pressing issue of the midterm elections. On Saturday, he called the “weaponization of our justice system” a “central issue of our time”.

Lamenting all the investigations he’s faced over the past eight years – so far – that have yet to be charged, Mr. Trump claimed that his legal predicament “probably makes me a the most innocent man in the history of our country.”

As before, Mr. Trump has tried to link his personal grievances with those of the crowd. “They’re not chasing me, they’re chasing you,” he said.

From the stage, it is noteworthy that Mr. Trump did not attack Manhattan district attorney Alvin L. Bragg with the cynical terms he has used on social media in recent days. Last week, he called Mr Bragg, who is black, an “animal” and accused him of racism for pursuing a lawsuit based on hush payments to porn star Stormy Daniels just before the 2016 election.

Mr. Trump also refrained from repeating his ominous post that “hidden death and destruction” can lead to if he is charged.

He personally attacked one of Mr Bragg’s senior advisers, noting that he arrived at the office from the Justice Department and described the move, without evidence, as part of a national conspiracy . “They couldn’t get it done in Washington, so they said, ‘Let’s use the local offices,'” Trump said.

Repel investigation led by Trump allies in Parliament, Mr. Bragg said in a statement on Saturday night, “We evaluate cases within our jurisdiction based on facts, law, and evidence.”


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In another investigation involving the handling of classified documents, the federal appeals court ruled over the past week that attorneys representing Trump must answer grand jury questions and provide documents to prosecutors. Mr. Trump’s team tried to prevent attorney M. Evan Corcoran from transferring the documents.

Mr. Trump referred to the case indirectly, complaining that lawyers had been treated differently because of the privilege between attorneys and clients. “Now they are thrown in with other people,” he said.

Mr. Trump spared some fire for his leading opponent in the polls for the 2024 Republican nomination, Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida, who has yet to announce his campaign. “He’s falling like a rock,” Trump said, pointing to his growing advantage over Mr. DeSantis in recent surveys.

He also said that the biggest threat to the US is not China or Russia but top US politicians, among them are President Biden, Senator Mitch McConnell, minority leader, and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who Mr. Trump said was “poisoning” the United States. Nation.

In many ways, the event is a familiar festival of Mr. Trump’s grievances and a showcase for his enduring talent for show. His plane – “Trump Force One,” as one broadcaster called it – sent a crowd of thousands into a stir as it flew over before landing.

The protest took a new turn: playing “Justice for All,” a song featuring the J6 Prison Choir, made up of men who were imprisoned for their part in the Capitol riots in January 6, 2021.

The song, which topped several iTunes download charts, is part of a broader effort by Mr. Trump and his allies to reframe the riot and attempt to overturn the election as patriotic. . The track features men singing “The Star-Spangled Banner” while Mr. Trump recites the Oath of Allegiance.

The timing of a potential indictment of Trump is unknown. The Manhattan grand jury that is hearing the case is scheduled to reconvene on Monday.

Michael C. Bender reported from Waco, Texas, and Shane Goldmancher from New York.

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