CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS/JOE BIDEN: “Hours after facing criminal charges for the alleged mishandling of classified documents, Donald Trump told a crowd of supporters at his golf resort in New Jersey that his indictments were a ‘corrupt’ and ‘political pursuit’ designed to destroy him…
In New Jersey, he maintained the defiant message that he had practiced at previous campaign events, including over the weekend after the indictment was unsealed. He baselessly accused Biden of orchestrating the federal charges against him, calling them a ‘political persecution’…
‘I will appoint a real special prosecutor to go after the most corrupt president in the history of the United States of America Joe Biden,’ Trump promised cheering supporters nonetheless. ‘I will totally obliterate the deep state.’”
-Maanvi Singh, “Trump claims ‘political persecution’ in speech after arraignment,” theguardian.com, June 13, 2023