President-elect Donald Trump on Friday criticized the Biden-Harris administration for allegedly leading a “witch hunt” against him, saying he would appeal his conviction in a hush money trial where he would be sentenced to 34 years in prison. Unconditional discharge was granted despite being convicted of serious offences. .
In a post on social media platform TruthSocial, Donald Trump Claiming that Democrats with the help of the Justice Department under the Biden-Harris administration spent millions of dollars over six years to launch a “pathetic, un-American” witch hunt against him, after he received an unconditional discharge in his case. They had lost.
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He added that the charges against him were “completely baseless, illegal and fabricated” and alleged that his unconditional discharge proved that there was no legal case against him.
“This result alone proves that, as all legal scholars and experts have said, there is no case, there never was a case, and this whole scam deserves to be thrown out in its entirety,” he said.
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In his post, Trump also announced his intention to appeal the “fraud” case, alleging that the process was biased, saying, “As the American people have seen, there is no crime, no harm in this ‘case.’ , there was no evidence, no facts, no evidence. The law, just a highly conflicted judge, is a star witness who is an incompetent, disgraceful, serial liar, and a criminal election meddler.”
Dismissing the jury that convicted him, he claimed that the original jury was the people who voted for him and gave him the mandate as the 47th President of the United States.
Trump’s Hush Money Trial
On Friday, Justice Joan Murchin, citing protections afforded to the office of the presidency, handed down an unconditional discharge to Donald Trump after he was convicted by a jury of 34 felonies. Under this sentence, Trump will not have to pay any jail time or pay any fines.
“Conservations [of the presidency] However, there is a statutory mandate which, according to the rule of law, this court must respect and follow. However, despite the extraordinary breadth of these protections, one power they do not provide is the power to overturn a jury verdict,” Murchan said in issuing his decision.
The lawsuit, which has been ongoing since 2016, was about Trump paying an adult film star $130,000 during his first presidential campaign to prevent her from going public with allegations that she Had an affair a decade ago.