‘Please convict me’: Trump claims he’d rather face jail than Biden humiliation
President Donald Trump used a rare speech he delivered at the Department of Justice to go after former President Joe Biden’s mental well-being – which he blamed as the reason his predecessor was not found guilty for his handling of classified documents.
The moment came Friday as Trump spoke from prepared remarks in front of an audience that included Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel. But he appeared to go off-script at several points, including when he began attacking Biden and “Hunter Biden’s laptop from hell.”
“We also terminated the clearances of the Biden crime family and Joe Biden himself,” Trump said. “He didn’t deserve it. In fact, he was essentially found guilty, but they said he was incompetent and therefore, ‘let’s not find him guilty.’ I guess nobody knows what that ruling was, but I didn’t want any part of it.”
“I think I would have rather been found guilty than what they found with him,” the president said as some in the crowd can be heard laughing.
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He added: “They said he didn’t know what the hell he was doing and therefore they just let him go. I said, you know, I’d rather be convicted, Pam… I said, please convict me – don’t say that.”
The Justice Department last year declined to charge Biden over the classified government documents sent to his Wilmington home and Washington, D.C., office before he was elected president in January 2021.
Trump on the other hand pleaded not guilty in a Florida federal court in 2022 after FBI agents found hundreds of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort, but the charges were later dropped after his election victory in November.
“Our predecessors turned this Department of Justice into the ‘Department of Injustice,’” Trump proclaimed during his speech Friday. “But I stand before you today to declare that those days are over, and they are never going to come back – they’re never coming back.”
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