On Saturday, Donald Trump expressed his conviction that he has not committed any misconduct and reaffirmed his refusal to accept a plea bargain if he were to face charges related to election interference in Georgia.
Trump blamed President Joe Biden for his current predicament and referred to the reporter who posed the question as a “wise guy” for asking such a question.
Fani Willis, the district attorney of Fulton County, Georgia, has indicated that she will present her case regarding the former president’s interference in an election to a grand jury within the next week.
If an indictment were to be issued in this case, it would be Trump’s fourth indictment, coming just two weeks after his most recent indictment in Washington, D.C.
At the Iowa State Fair, a significant event on the 2024 campaign schedule, Republicans were present.
Former President Trump’s visit to the fair elicited effusive responses from admiring supporters, while members of Congress also took advantage of the opportunity to convey their own messages.
During a brief press conference on the tarmac prior to President Trump’s departure from Iowa to his championship golf course in New Jersey, he was asked about his potential willingness to accept a plea agreement in the Georgia case involving allegations of election interference.
The reporter inquired as to whether he could accept a plea bargain in the state of Georgia.
“We did nothing wrong. We don’t ever take a plea deal. We don’t take plea deals. It’s a wise guy question. You’re just a wise guy,” Trump responded. “We don’t take plea deals because I did nothing wrong. It’s called election interference.”
Subsequently, Trump asserted that Biden was responsible for the allegations as a strategic maneuver to win the 2024 election. He also mocked the recent appointment of a special counsel in the Hunter Biden investigation and used the term “wise guy” to refer to the reporter for a second time.
In the D.C. lawsuit, Trump was also questioned about his willingness to comply with the judge’s directive, but he declined to make a firm commitment.
REPORTER: Is there any chance you take a plea deal in Georgia?
TRUMP: We did nothing wrong. We don’t ever take a plea deal. We don’t take plea deals. It’s a wise guy question. You’re just a wise guy. We don’t take plea deals because I did nothing wrong. It’s called election interference. You know what that is?
Because these indictments are going out by Biden. Who can’t even put two sentences together. This is Joe Biden. Because he can’t win the election by himself. He can’t win the election based on votes. So what they did is they got the attorney general to do it. And then you see how stupid they acted yesterday with the appointment of the special counsel. They call it special counsel. And what a crazy thing that was. And it’s being laughed at all over the world.
The fact is that we have a country that’s in serious trouble. We have a country that’s in major decline. I don’t mean decline, I mean major decline. And we’re going to straighten it out. This group and a lot of people just like this group. We’re going to straighten it out and we’re going to make America great again.
Wise guy.
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Trump criticized Smith this morning for obtaining a search warrant for his erstwhile Twitter account.
Trump criticized Smith’s office, which is investigating how the former president handled classified information and attempting to influence the 2020 election.
He published the following on Truth Social:
“How dare lowlife prosecutor, Deranged Jack Smith, break into my former Twitter account without informing me and, indeed, trying to completely hide this atrocity from me. What could he possibly find out that is not already known. Just like the early morning raid of Mar-a-Lago! Why isn’t the DOJ raiding Crooked Joe Biden, the most CORRUPT (and Incompetent!) President in the history of the United States?”
Also this morning, about an hour ago at the time of this article, Trump went into a blistering indictment of those bringing charges against him:
“I UNDERSTAND THROUGH ILLEGAL LEAKS TO THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA THAT PHONEY FANI WILLIS, THE D.A. OF FULTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, WANTS DESPERATELY TO INDICT ME ON THE RIDICULOUS GROUNDS OF TAMPERING WITH THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. NO, I DIDN’T TAMPER WITH THE ELECTION! THOSE WHO RIGGED & STOLE THE ELECTION WERE THE ONES DOING THE TAMPERING, & THEY ARE THE SLIME THAT SHOULD BE PROSECUTED. I MADE A PERFECT PHONE CALL OF PROTEST. WHY WASN’T THIS FAKE CASE BROUGHT 2.5 YEARS AGO? ELECTION INTERFERENCE!”
Trump continued:
“WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE TELL THE FULTON COUNTY GRAND JURY THAT I DID NOT TAMPER WITH THE ELECTION. THE PEOPLE THAT TAMPERED WITH IT WERE THE ONES THAT RIGGED IT, AND SADLY, PHONEY FANI WILLIS, WHO HAS SHOCKINGLY ALLOWED ATLANTA TO BECOME ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUS CITIES ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD, HAS NO INTEREST IN SEEING THE MASSIVE AMOUNT OF EVIDENCE AVAILABLE, OR FINDING OUT WHO THESE PEOPLE THAT COMMITTED THIS CRIME ARE. SHE ONLY WANTS TO “GET TRUMP.” I WOULD BE HAPPY TO SHOW THIS INFO TO THE G.J.”