President Trump arrives for closing arguments in New York Civil Fraud Trial: “It’s an unconstitutional witch hunt. It’s election interference at the highest level...It’s a very unfair trial...I have no jury. I really have no rights. Nobody thinks it’s constitutional.”
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Well, thank you very much, as you know, because it is an unconstitutional witch hunt. It's election interference at the highest level, it's a disgrace. It's in coordination with the White House and Joe Biden, because he can't win a campaign fairly. And we're going through it, but he is indeed a terrible witch hunt. We're going to have a news conference a little later on. As you know, I want to speak, I want to make the summation. At this moment, the judge is not letting me make the summation because I'll bring up things that he doesn't want to hear. And it's a very unfair drought, nobody's seen anything like this. I don't think they've ever seen anything like this. We have a situation where a statute was used that doesn't give me a jury, so I have no jury. I really have no rights, and nobody thinks it's constitutional people. Illegal scholars are writing about it like it's something they've never seen before. So it's interference, it's political interference, and it's something that shouldn't be allowed. So I am hoping to speak and to help my lawyers reveal all of the defects of this case, which have never been brought. Very, very strong financial statements, they thought it was the opposite, they had no idea because I'm a private company, and then they saw them knock their socks off, you couldn't believe it. But great financial statements, everything is good. We have a level of detail in our defense that nobody's ever had. This is a case that should have never been brought, and it was brought. And it's very unfair, and it's very bad for New York State. People are fleeing, the streets are driving, and Latisha James, all she thinks about is get drunk. She's been dreaming about it for years, and it's not the way a state should be run, because this is a state that's been in big trouble. You have all the businesses fleeing, and you have the people fleeing, the people that pay taxes, people that don't pay taxes are coming in, so it's not what you want. So I want to thank you. We're going to have a news conference today. We don't know the time. We don't know the time, we'll notify you, but sometime in the early afternoon at 40 Wall Street, so we'll give a news conference where we can actually speak and have a microphone here, because even then, they don't want us to have, and they really don't want us to speak too much. So we'll see whether or not the judge allows me to speak. Perhaps he won't, but I certainly would like to. Thank you very much.
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