Ex-US President Donald Trump tore into what he called a "fascist" judicial system Friday, just hours after he was found guilty by a New York jury of 34 state crimes.
Trump, now a convicted felon, went on a meandering and at times contradictory 42-minute diatribe in which he maintained that the "rigged" case was politically motivated by his successor, President Joe Biden, telling his supporters, "If they can do this to me, they can do this to anyone."
"I'm the leading person for president and I'm under a gag order, by a man that can't put two sentences together, given by a court and they are in total conjunction with the White House and the DOJ just so you understand," the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, and the first former president in history to convicted of felony charges, said at his eponymous New York tower.
He was referring to the Justice Department, which he said is part of "a fascist state."
"This is all done by Biden and his people, and maybe his people, more importantly, I don't know if Biden knows too much about it. Because I don't know if he knows about anything. But he's nevertheless the president. So we have to use his name," he added.
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