Donald Trump said he was being ‘persecuted’ because he lead of his polls and ripped into the ‘filth’ and ‘decay’ in Washington D.C. after pleading not guilty to conspiring to overturn the 2020 election.
‘This is a very sad day for America and it was also very sad driving through Washington D.C. and seeing the filth and the decay and all of the broken buildings and walls and the graffiti,’ he said at Reagan National Airport after his third arraignment
‘He is guilty of lying before Congress,’ the 2024 GOP contender said.
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After seven hearings held by the January 6 committee thus far this summer, doubts as to who is responsible have been resolved. The evidence is now overwhelming that Donald Trump was the driving force behind a massive criminal conspiracy to interfere with the official January 6 congressional proceeding and to defraud the United States of a fair election outcome.
The evidence is clearer and more robust than we as former federal prosecutors—two of us as Department of Justice officials in
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