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>> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the next president of the united states, president donald j trump. [applause] ♪

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[applause] mr. trump: thank you, thank you.

>> usa! mr. trump: well, thank you very much. thank you. today we witnessed the most evil and heinous abuse of power is in history of our country. we watched a corrupt city president have his top political opponents arrested on fake and fabricated charges of which he and numerous other presidents would be guilty right in the middle of a presidential election in which he is losing it very badly. [applause] mr. trump: this is called election interference and yet another attempt to rake and steal a presidential election. more broadly, it is a political persecution like something straight out of a fascist or communist nation. this thing will go down in infamy and joe biden will forever be remembered as not only the corrupt president in

the history of our country but perhaps even more importantly, the president who together with a band of his closest dogs, misfits, and marxist tried to destroy american democracy. but they will fail and we will win bigger and better. [applause] mr. trump: charging a former president of the united states under the espionage act of 1917. it wasn't meant for this. and ask for a crime so heinous that only the death penalty would do and threatening me with 400 years in prison for possessing my own presidential papers, which just about every of the president has done, in one of the most outrageous and vicious legal theories ever put forward in an american court of law. the espionage act has been used to go after traitors and spies

and has nothing to do with a former president legally keeping his own documents. as president, the law that applies to this case is not the espionage act but very simply the presidential records act which is not been mentioned in this ridiculous 44 page indictment. under the presidential records act, which is civil not criminal, i had every right to have these documents. the crucial legal president is laid out in the most important case ever on the subject known as the clinton sucks case. -- clinton socks case. after leaving the white house, bill clinton kept 79 audiotapes in his sock drawer. they included discussions of u.s. military involvement in haiti, discussions of u.s. foreign policy both defensive

and offense of against cuba, recordings of president clinton's conversations with all of the many foreign leaders at the time. think of that. sensitive facts about trade negotiations taken from presidential briefings, discussions with the secretary of state around conflict in bosnia and much much more. very big stuff. not only was bill clinton never even considered for criminal prosecution based on the tapes he took, but when he was sued for them, he won the case. judge amy berman jackson's decision states under the statutory scheme established by the presidential records act the decision to segregate personal materials from residential records is made by the president during the president's term. and in the president's soul

discretion -- sole discretion. you are surprised to hear that aren't you? any normal administration would consider that to be the end, but not the corrupt biden administration. the socks decision also states the national archives and records administration does not have the authority to designate material as residential records. they don't have the authority. they do not have the tapes in question and nara lacks any right to duty or means to seize control of them. this is law. the president enjoys unconstrained authority to make decisions regarding the disposal of documents. that is unconstrained to make that decision. neither the archivist or congress has the authority to veto the president decision. the presidential records act

does not confer any mandatory or even discretionary authority on the archivist to classify records. under the statute, this responsibility is left solely to the president of the united states. think of that. that is the decision. think of that. [applause] just think of that spirit in other words, whatever documents a president decided to take with him, he has the right to do so. it is an absolute right. this is the law, and that is something that the people have now seen and it could not be more clear. they ought to drop this case immediately because they are destroying the country. [applause] mr. trump: and this is why no other president, even those who kept far more documents than i, has ever been even investigated,

let alone charged with a crime because the sham indictment put forward by the biden administration included staged photographs of boxes at mar-a-lago. many people have asked me why i had these boxes. why did you want them? the answer in addition to having every right under the presidential records act is that these boxes were containing all types of personal belongings, many things. shirts and shoes and everything. as can be seen in the picture where someone, not me, i wonder who it might have been, dumped one of the very neatly arranged the floor. they were full of newspapers, press clippings, thousands of pictures, thousands and thousands of white house pictures. the white house photographer, some are with us today, they took so many pictures. we saved all of them and they were in those boxes. clothing, memorabilia, and much,

much more. had not had a chance to go through all the boxes. it is a long, tedious job and takes a long time, which i was prepared to do but i have a very busy life. i have had a very busy life. make it more busy because you are always fighting. [applause] under the socks decision, there seemed to be no rush. i was not in a rush because that decision was a law. the other picture that was so vile, you remember that? it was the photo staged by the fbi and those that rated mar-a-lago. they were putting documents all over the floor. remember that famous picture? it said confidential, presidential, all sorts of things and it was supposed to be there like it was that way when they rated. was not that way. they put them there, took the picture, and released it illegally to the press. they took my medical records,

passport, birth certificate, and apologize. they even brought a safe cracker, professional safe cracker they brought into mar-a-lago and broke into my safe. you know what they found? nothing. there was nothing there, nothing there. there was zero. according to the presidential records act, which is a big deal, i was supposed to negotiate with nara which is exactly what i was doing until mar-a-lago was rated by gun toting fbi agent. i have security tapes of its. i gave them security tape of everything. in a flagrant violation of the fourth amendment of the constitution which protects the right against unreasonable search and seizure -- [applause] -- aunt sebastian, you covered very well, i must say, very well. i'm not the one who thinks i am

above the law. i'm the one who followed the law. i am the only one. it is joe biden his corrupt department of injustice who think they are above the law. never before have the two standards of justice in our country been more starkly revealed. joe biden had troves of classified documents from his time as vice president and even as a senator, which was completely and totally illegal. in fact, other centers heard about it. dick durbin heard about it. you have to see his response. took him as a senator out of a skiff. they were shocked when they found out. they actually thought it was impossible to do. biden sent 1850 boxes to the university of delaware, making the search very, very difficult for anybody, and he refuses to give them up and he refuses to let people even look at them.

they say he is behaving so nicely. many of biden's classify documents were in chinatown, d.c., which is shocking considering his family receives so much money from china. i wonder how many times the friends of ours from china reviewed those documents. chinatown, d.c.. others were unsecure to his so-called pen biden centers in washington which made biden approximately $1 million a year. the money supposedly coming from china and still other classified documents were strewn all over his garage floor where his now famous corvette is stored. he is so proud of that car. there was no security, and the door was left open most of the time. it was open. all of those classify documents, all those documents strewn all over the floor, piled up like junk. unlike me who had absolutely

classification authority as president, joe biden as vice president had no authority to declassify and no right to possess the documents. he had no rights. instead of falling under the presidential records act, biden's actions fell under a much stricter federal records act, which is very, very tough criminal penalties yet nothing happens to crooked joe. nothing happened. have you heard anything about with the big search for his documents? no, only me. hillary clinton set up an illegal private server in her basement. you have never heard the story, with the deliberate intention of violating public information laws so she could hide her plate -- pay for play scandals at the clinton foundation's or whatever. hillary stored mass quantities of classified and sensitive information on her illicit server. some of it happened to leak into anthony weiner's computer.

do you remember anthony weiner? into his computer. he did not want to be on his computer. [laughter] all of it was illegal because thankfully, she was never president and she did not have the powers to declassify. [applause] mr. trump: thank you. she's not -- she did not have the power to classify. it is a big difference and neither did joe. it is pretty hot out here. thank you. happy birthday, great birthday. [applause] mr. trump: nice birthday, is not it? n't it? [crowd singing happy birthday]

[applause] mr. trump: nice birthday, wonderful birthday. they were's saying happy birthday. i was with eric and laura and the kids. happy birthday, grandpa. i said i just got charged with -- they want 400 years of prosecution if you add them all up, a fake 400 years. so thank you, darling, that is so nice, a wonderful birthday. we are going to make it into the greatest birthday of all. [applause] mr. trump: when caught, hillbilly then deleted and acid washed -- hillary deleted and acid washed. it was 33,000 emails in defiance of a congressional subpoena. the subpoena was there and she decided to delete, acid wash, and then smash and destroy her cell phone with a hammer.

then they say i participated in obstruction? no, think of it. that is called obstruction. there has never been obstruction as grave as that. she did this in the face of everything and yet, nobody did anything about it. the fbi and the doj protected her and did not issue subpoenas, did not use a grand jury, did not execute search warrants, and then the corrupt head of the fbi, james comey declared no reasonable prosecutor would bring a case. can you believe it? [boos] mr. trump: that was just one of many items. hillary clinton broke the law and did not get indicted. joe biden broke the law and in many other ways we are finding out and so far, has not gotten indicted. i did everything right, and they indicted me, but we are serving

as a great example. in the case of bill clinton's national security advisor, remember that? sandy berger was caught stealing classified documents from the national archives, very big ones, very important ones, by stuffing them in his pants. that's pretty. [applause] mr. trump: putting them also in his socks and he destroyed them and cut the tape with scissors, cut them all up. what berger did was highly illegal, but he was given nothing, no jail time, nothing, nothing happened. there are countless other examples. bill clinton, who i happen to like. hard to believe, right? before i did this, i was white friendly with him. nice guy. they should have used him a little bit more as an advisor on the 2016 election. he said you better get to wisconsin and michigan, you are going to lose. no, were not. they did.

clinton lost the nuclear codes and absently nothing was done about it. he lost the nuclear codes. the george w. bush warehouse lost 22 million emails, a record. nara cannot assure complete transfer of any of the bush records. document shredding truck was spotted on the way to dick cheney's house. can you imagine? hillary clinton took hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of furniture, china, flatware, rugs, and more from the white house, and she was not prosecuted. she took the furniture and the china. how about if trump did that? the horrific violations of my rights by crooked joe biden's weaponized apartment of injustice are unthinkable. it is unthinkable what has happened, so bad for our country.

democrats all flawlessly pierced my attorney -- client privilege with lawyers. what they did with lawyers and what they have done to our lawyers, all of our lawyers, they have done things that were absolutely horrible and unthinkable. the leaking has been unbelievable, and highly illegal. they leak. we have learned more about from the washington post, new york times about the doj's boxes hoax than from prosecutors themselves. we want to read about it, you pick up the washington post, which is not doing well or you pick up the new york times, but they will do better now because of these things. this is the only way they survived but they will end up dying. it is not supposed to be that way. we don't want to learn from the times and leaks erred we want to learn from the people we are supposed to learn from. it is like a leaking civics in washington. we learn nothing about the biden

bribery scheme or special counsel, robert hurt's investigation. robert hurt is doing the biden investigation. he is a very respected, very nice person, very nice person. mine is not such a nice person. mine is a deranged lunatic. which are many times the magnitude of ours and both number and severity. that is the prosecutor that they gave. he has found nothing. he totally exonerated mike pence. i am happy about that. mike did nothing wrong but happened to have classified documents in his house but they exonerated him and biden is a different story. you have to really think about what was said at a -- as a senator. he took all those documents, unprecedented. the prosecutor in the case, i will call it our case, is a thug. i have named him deranged jack smith.

i wonder what his name used to be. jack smith sounds so innocent doesn't it? he is a behind the scenes guy, but his record is absolutely atrocious. he does political hit jobs. he has been known to viciously arrest a certain governor. you know what the governor bob mcdonnell of virginia, and he absolutely ruined his life and the life of his family. all his wonderful family members, i knew them, only to have the case overturned 8-0 by the supreme court. he destroyed that man and his family. by the way, i will tell you i am here and i love you all, and we can take it. [applause] mr. trump: but what these dogs have done to my family is a disgrace. i will tell you that. i say it to all of the fake news

because there is a lot of it back there. [boos] mr. trump: what they did to my family and that young man right there, he has answered more subpoenas than any human being in the history of the world and they have nothing after all of those subpoenas. literally thousands of them, congress, fake councils, mueller report. all he did his answer subpoenas all the time. at least he has become very experienced at that, congratulations. but eric is a fantastic and what he and don and yvonne cut and what they have gone through, and these are serious people, these are serious people, but what he has done to my family and what they have done to my family is horrible. he also tried to railroad john edwards on a completely bogus legal theory that did not hold up in court. it is no wonder this raging lunatic was shipped off to the hague to prosecute war criminals

using globalist tribunals, not to beholden to the constitution or the rule of law. to things jack smith clearly disdains. if you take a look at this guy, he looks like a thug but then i watched him make a speech the other day and he was trembling because it was not his territory. he feels much safer in the inner sanctum's of the department of injustice where he can beat in his room and scream at people -- beats in his room and scream at people. he is a raging trump hater as is his wife who also happened to be the producer of that michelle obama puff piece, total puff piece. this is the guy i've got. don't forget, this persecution is being done by the same weaponized agencies that were seven years have been running a legal psychological warfare campaigns against the american people, much as if they were trying to destabilize a foreign country. from the russia, russia, russia

hoax to the no collusion molar witchhunt to impeachment hoax number one, impeachment hoax number two, the 51 lying intelligence officers -- how about them? they said it is rushing this information in a new it was not which according to some great posters who are right here, made anywhere from eight 10-17 point difference and yet we still got more of what -- votes than any sitting president in the history of our country. we actually did much better in the second election than the first election. the fake dossier paid for by the democrats, how about the fake dossier? you think that was easy to go home and say hello darling, how are you, when they wrote about that? it was not easy at all. we caught them spying on my campaign. the fbi, twitter files, and so much more. it has all been a battle of

disinformation, one thing after the other, and all to protect the radical left misfits. it is also no coincidence that these charges against me came down the very same day evidence revealed joe biden took a $5 million bribe from ukraine, took a $5 million bribe. but the fbi and the justice department don't want to talk about it. they showed something on television tonight. it had zero time on the three major networks, zero. but my impeachment had almost all the time. i think i had 351 minutes and they had no minutes, ok? i had -- i think a lot of people are going to vote. [applause] mr. trump: i will tell you, i just left miami and i have never seen love in the streets like that. we have seen a lot of love. i have never seen love like that because they know what we all go

through and what we have gone through, and they see it, and they are smart. many of those people coming from cuba, venezuela, and other countries see this happening to their countries. i used to say the united states if it keeps going this way will be venezuela on steroids, and now we are buying oil from venezuela. we have mold -- more liquid gold under our feet in any other nation but we are buying tar from venezuela and refining it in houston, the dirtiest, worst oil probably anywhere in the world, and we are refining it. you can imagine what is going up in the air. our beautiful stuff we are not taking out of the ground and making a lot of money and paying off debt and reducing taxes still further, which we work in the process of doing. they want to distract from the real espionage and crime, so let's use president trump to do so. let's go out and indict president trump so they don't talk about the $5 million bribe.

just yesterday senator grassley revealed that the burisma executive who allegedly paid the bribe reportedly has crooked joe on tape. they have 17 tapes i understand. he must be a nice guy to deal with, right? the guy from burisma, nice company. have him and hunter on 17 different tapes but the fbi is not showing them. remember, they impeach me for asking a simple question about biden's corrupt dealings it's in ukraine, and now they see that once again, i was right. i was right. i was totally right. [applause] mr. trump: joe biden in the radical left can take foreign bribes and be totally protected. republicans you must finally get tough. you have to get tough and show them. when you arrest your leading political opponents, we no longer have a democracy. when people are allowed to pour through our open borders and our elections are rigged, our country is in very there is

trouble. when inflation is allowed to rage, when energy independence and dominance -- we had independence and dominance. we are going to be soon very dominant within six months, dominate the whole world with energy and make a fortune. we were going to be paying off debt and lowering taxes to a level that nobody has ever seen, and they came in and ended it. when that is taken away from us, when interest rates and taxes spiral upward in an uncontrolled way, when murders -- murderers are allowed to roam the streets of democrat run cities unchecked, but the incompetent district attorney in new york indicts trump for a crime that everybody agrees, every pundit, everybody, there is no crime. but murderers go out and nobody even comes and knocks on their door and they know they are there, and they know their locations and rooms. they are roaming our cities all

over, and some of them are coming in right now through our borders. but then you have a nation that, as we are, is in serious, serious decline. we have a nation in serious decline. if the communists get away with this, it will not stop with me. they will not hesitate to ramp up there persecution of christians, pro-life activists, parents attending school board meetings, and even future republican candidates, which they do. we must and it permanently and we must and it medially. -- we must end it medially. the seal is broken by what they have done, and they should never have done this. this was an unwritten rule. you just don't unless it is really bad, but you just don't. but the seal is now broken. in addition to closing the border and removing the criminal elements that have illegally invaded our country, making america energy independent and even dominant again and

immediately ending the war between russia and ukraine -- i will have ended in 24 hours. [applause] [applause] mr. trump: 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. and the entire biden crime family, name a special prosecutor, and all others involved with the destruction of our elections, our borders, and our country itself. they are destroying our country. when i am reelected, and we will get reelected. we have no choice. we will not have a country anymore. i will totally obliterate the deep state. [applause] mr. trump: we will obliterate the deep state, and we know who they are. i know exactly who they are. they want to take away my freedom because i will never let them take away your freedom. it is very simple. [applause]

mr. trump: they want to silence me because i will never let them silence you. they want you silent. i am the only one that can save this nation because you know they are not coming after me. they are coming after you and i just happen to be standing in their way, and i will never be moving. [applause] mr. trump: on november 5, 2024, justice will be done. we will take back our country, and we will make america great again. thank you, god bless you all. thank you. thank you very much. great job. thank you. [applause] ♪

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