Former President Donald Trump said on Friday that following his guilty verdict in the Manhattan hush-money trial, he is “the political prisoner of a failing nation.”
Trump took to his social media platform Truth Social on Friday evening to comment on his conviction after he was found guilty of 34 charges of falsifying business records. The presumptive Republican nominee also held a press conference on Friday afternoon to discuss the verdict in the trial that Trump has slammed as a political “witch hunt” and “election interference.”
“I AM THE POLITICAL PRISONER OF A FAILING NATION, BUT I WILL SOON BE FREE, NOVEMBER 5TH, AND MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” Trump wrote, referring to Election Day, which he has said will be when Americans hand down the “real verdict.”
Minutes before that post, Trump said, “These are Dark Days in America.”
“After sitting for five weeks through that Rigged Trial in Lower Manhattan, which was surrounded by vast but unnecessary numbers of New York’s Finest in order to keep law abiding MAGA patriots away, and as I watched insignificant numbers of fully funded Radical Left troublemakers, with brand new and gleaming professionally made signs, screaming and cursing from areas said to be closed to us, and all others, I realized that Reason, Truth, and Love of our Country is no longer a force of Good and Change. These are Dark Days in America!” Trump wrote.
The former president has argued that his political rival, President Joe Biden, has targeted him in multiple criminal trials to keep him off the campaign trail. Despite his four criminal trials — and now, one conviction — Trump remains ahead of Biden in most polls, according to the RealClearPolitics average.
The Biden campaign celebrated Trump’s guilty verdict on Thursday, but added that the president can only defeat the Republican presidential candidate at the ballot box in November.
“In New York today, we saw that no one is above the law,” a statement from Biden Campaign Communications Director Michael Tyler said. “Donald Trump has always mistakenly believed he would never face consequences for breaking the law for his own personal gain. But today’s verdict does not change the fact that the American people face a simple reality. There is still only one way to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office: at the ballot box. Convicted felon or not, Trump will be the Republican nominee for president.”
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Shortly after his conviction, Trump raised a staggering $52.8 million, which included a large amount of new donors, according to his campaign.
“In the 24 hours since Crooked Joe Biden and his New York henchmen got their sham trial verdict, the Trump Campaign has raised $52.8 million through the online digital fundraising platform,” the Trump campaign said in a statement. “THAT’S MORE THAN $2 MILLION PER HOUR!”
“With more than one third of these donors being new to the campaign, it is clear that more and more Americans are seeing through the Biden election interference and joining President Trump in the movement to save our nation,” the statement added.
