Former President Donald Trump struck a defiant note Tuesday evening, declaring that felony charges made against him were erroneous, politically motivated and “an insult to our country.”
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“The only crime that I have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it” hours after being charged in New York, he said in a speech to his supporters at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
Trump made his first comments following the Manhattan announcement of the indictment’s specifics on Tuesday, April 4, 2023.
The ex-president entered a not guilty plea to 34 felonies relating to filing false company papers in an alleged plot to cover up extramarital affair claims before the 2016 presidential election.
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What did Trump say?
Trump stated that the Presidential Records Act necessitates protracted talks over the repatriation of papers in his criticism of the federal search of Mar-a-Lago in August.
He said: “Just so everyone knows, I come under what’s known as the Presidential Records Act, which was designed and approved by Congress long ago just for this reason. Under the act, I’m supposed to negotiate with NARA, the National Archives and Records Administration.” He went on to disparage NARA.
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