Convicted felon Donald Trump. (Shutterstock.com)
Donald Trump kicked off his Friday morning with an extensive rant on his Truth Social platform where he continued to plead his case over twelve hours after a Manhattan jury found him guilty of 34 felonies.
Mere hours before he is expected to give a press conference at Trump Tower, the now-convicted felon Trump ranted that the jury was wrong to convict him and pointed the finger at his bookkeeper and lawyer from the time when he signed checks used to pay off adult film star Stormy Daniels.
On Truth Social, he fumed, "My bookkeeper called a 'Legal Expense,' on the 'tiny' description line of the Ledger, a 'Legal Expense,' openly paid to my lawyer, at that time a fully accredited one. I was not involved in that designation, but what else would you have called it? It was, in fact, a LEGAL EXPENSE. That is the so-called 'CRIME.'"
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He then added, "On top of that, I wasn’t allowed by the judge to use, in any form, the standard RELIANCE ON COUNSEL DEFENSE (ADVICE OF COUNSEL!). My lawyer, at the time, did virtually everything on the NDA (NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT), and I assumed that what he did was correct. I did nothing wrong, and frankly, there was nothing done wrong - NDA’s are standard, commonly used, and LEGAL. "
"MAGA2024! WITCH HUNT! IF THIS CAN HAPPEN TO ME, IT CAN HAPPEN TO ANYONE!" he concluded.
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