It was billed as an event where Donald J. Trump would deliver remarks about his criminal conviction. Instead, the former president and presumptive Republican nominee gave a discursive mini-rally on Friday filled with misleading statements about what had taken place inside a Manhattan courtroom a day earlier and familiar campaign attacks against President Biden and his Democratic allies.
This is a case where if they can do this to me, they can do this to anyone, Mr. Trump said of the prosecutors from the office of the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, who won a conviction against him. These are bad people. These are in many cases, I believe, sick people.
Mr. Trump complained about the charges against him and then about his own lawyers, whom he verbally brutalized privately throughout the trial. Falsification of business records in the first degree - it sounds so bad, Mr. Trump said.
...even my own lawyers, I get very upset with them, because they don't say what it is.
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