Former President Donald Trump delivered a blistering and defiant speech from his New Jersey golf club hours after pleading not guilty to federal charges – calling the prosecution ‘the most evil and heinous abuse of power in the history of our country.’
‘I did everything right and they indicted me,’ he complained while surrounded by supporters back on his home turf after his day dealing with the criminal justice system.
Trump delivered meandering remarks where he inveighed against disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner and former FBI Director James Comey – then ran through classified documents clashes of the Bill Clinton administration.
He blasted prosecutors for ‘threatening me with 400 years in prison for possessing my own presidential papers’ – brushing aside the indictment, which accuses him of willfully maintaining national security information at properties including the Bedminster, New Jersey club where he spoke.
That could be the total sentence if Trump were to be…