Former President Donald Trump denounced the Department of Justice over its federal indictment charging the former president for his mishandling of classified documents, claiming the charges stem from a politically motivated investigation aimed at weakening his 2024 presidential election campaign.
“We now have two standards of justice in this country,” Trump said in remarks at the annual Georgia GOP Convention on Saturday. “The Democrat communists want to jail their opponents while they protect the murderers who prowl our cities day and night, and other brazen criminals.”Trump dismissed the charges as a “travesty of justice,” accusing President Joe Biden and other Democrats of merely using the incident as an attempt “to jail his leading political opponent.
“All of my documents fell under what is known as the Presidential Records Act, which is not at all a criminal act,” Trump said. “And this fake indictment, they don't even once mention the Presidential Records Act, which is really the ruling — which is the case it falls under because they want something called the Espionage Act, and that sounds terrible.”
Trump faces 37 criminal counts in the classified documents indictment, including 31 counts of willful retention of national defense information, one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice, one count of withholding a document or record, one count of corruptly concealing a document or record, one count of concealing documents in a federal investigation, one count of scheme to conceal, and one count of making false statements and representations.
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