Former President Donald Trump dove straight into raising cash for his White House run hours after becoming the first former president charged with federal crimes, related to his handling of classified documents.
Mr. Trump told supporters outside a planned fundraiser at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, on Tuesday evening that the case should be dropped, warning the “sham indictment” is “destroying the country.”
Mr. Trump is running for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. Polls show him far ahead of his primary rivals but in a tight race against Mr. Biden. The indictment says Mr. Trump ignored multiple opportunities to return the documents to the federal government and even suggested to his lawyers that they should tell the Justice Department that they had no materials that needed to be turned over.
“This day will go down in infamy and Joe Biden will forever be remembered not only as the most corrupt president in the history of the country, but, perhaps even more importantly, the president with a band of his closest thugs, misfits, and Marxists tried to destroy American democracy,” he said. “But they will fail and we will win bigger and better than ever before.”
They say Mr. Trump made matters worse for himself by refusing to return documents despite being given multiple opportunities.
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