{"id":2002088,"date":"2023-08-16T04:16:59","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T08:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-speaks-out-in-interview-after-georgia-indictment\/"},"modified":"2023-08-16T04:19:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T08:19:11","slug":"trump-speaks-out-in-interview-after-georgia-indictment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-speaks-out-in-interview-after-georgia-indictment\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump addresses Georgia indictment in interview."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-speaks-out-in-interview-after-georgia-indictment%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2002088&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Former President Trump\u2063 Indicted for the Fourth Time<\/h2>\n<p>Hours after former President Donald Trump was indicted \u200dfor the fourth time \u200dthis year, he gave an interview\u200c to Fox News Digital about the most recent case and its significance.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Nineteen people were\u2062 indicted, and the whole world is laughing at the United States as they see how corrupt \u200cand horrible a place it has turned out\u2063 to be under the leadership of Crooked [President] Joe Biden,&#8221; President Trump said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The grand \u2063jury\u2063 in Fulton County, Georgia, had \u200dindicted the former president along with 18 alleged co-conspirators, including former White House Chief \u2064of Staff Mark Meadows and\u2063 his former attorneys Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, and Sidney Powell, with a total of 41 charges.<\/p>\n<p>All defendants were charged\u200d with racketeering in the 98-page\u200c indictment, which \u2063carries a penalty up to 20 \u2064years in prison.<\/p>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/trump-indictments-are-persecution-says-ramaswamy-as-clinton-assures-system-is-working-5466574\">Trump Indictments Are &#8216;Persecution,&#8217; Says Ramaswamy, as Clinton Assures &#8216;System Is\u2064 Working&#8217;<\/a> -\u2064 8\/15\/2023<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/epochtv\/georgia-charges-trump-and-18-others-using-tool-for-mafia-5465837\">Georgia\u2063 Charges Trump and 18 Others Using Tool \u2062for Mafia \u200d| Live With Josh<\/a> &#8211; 8\/15\/2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;This politically-inspired indictment,\u2064 which could have been brought \u2063close to three years ago, was \u200dtailored for placement \u2062right smack in the middle of my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/walsh-a-baby-sleep-training-expert-was-doxxed-and-boycotted-because-she-donated-to-trump\/\" title=\"WALSH: A Baby Sleep Training Expert Was Doxxed And Boycotted Because She Donated To Trump\">political campaign<\/a>, where\u2062 I am leading \u200dall Republicans\u2014by a \u200dlot\u2014and beating \u2064Joe Biden soundly in \u2063almost all polls,&#8221; President \u200dTrump said, \u2062repeating his assertion that the multiple charges brought\u200c against him this year amount to &#8220;election interference.&#8221; President \u200bBiden, \u2064meanwhile, has kept quiet on the issue and avoided \u2062commenting on \u2063the\u2063 cases.<\/p>\n<p>Late\u200c on Monday, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis gave a brief press conference\u200c during\u2064 which she \u200csaid she intended to try all 19 defendants together. Arrest warrants have been issued already, and Ms. Willis said she\u200d was allowing\u200d defendants to\u200c voluntarily surrender by noon on Aug. 25.<\/p>\n<h2>Clashes<\/h2>\n<p>In the Monday interview, President Trump again accused Ms. Willis, a Democrat, of acting\u200c out of\u200b political and personal bias.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed\u200d out \u2064her district&#8217;s rising crime\u2062 rates while she\u200d recently\u200d opened a new\u200d fundraising website &#8220;in order to benefit off\u2063 the things she \u2062most campaigned on, \u2018I will get Donald Trump,\u2019&#8221; \u200dhe said.<\/p>\n<p>He called the indictment &#8220;a \u200dcontinuation of the greatest and longest-running Witch Hunt in American history,&#8221; adding that it is &#8220;not even conceivable that a person with such a record\u200c of failure could be allowed\u200d to interrupt \u200dperhaps the most important \u2062election\u200d in the history of our\u2062 country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Previously, after the 45th president&#8217;s \u2062third indictment, \u200dhis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-speaks-out-in-interview-after-georgia-indictment\/\" title=\"Trump addresses Georgia indictment in interview.\">team ran campaign ads highlighting<\/a> the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/weissmann-lashes-out-at-trump-over-manafort-stone-pardons-cooks-up-new-plot-to-prosecute-them-for-perjury-and-obstruction\/\" title=\"Weissmann Lashes Out at Trump Over Manafort, Stone Pardons \u2013 Cooks Up New Plot to Prosecute Them for Perjury and Obstruction\">witch hunt<\/a>,&#8221; including\u200b one singling out Ms. Willis and what it called her\u200b vendetta against the former president.<\/p>\n<p>In an email obtained by the Associated Press, Ms. Willis told her staff not to comment on it.\u2063 &#8220;We have a job to do. In this office, we prosecute based \u200con the facts and \u200cthe\u200d law,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;This is business, it will never be personal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Willis, who was elected in 2020, \u200cbegan her\u2064 investigation into the 2020 Georgia \u200cGeneral \u2062Election\u200b last year, and \u200ca <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ny-prosecutors-convene-grand-jury-to-hear-evidence-in-criminal-investigation-into-trump-others\/\" title=\"NY Prosecutors Convene Grand Jury To Hear Evidence In Criminal Investigation Into Trump, Others\">special grand jury<\/a> with subpoena power was\u200c seated May 2022.\u200d That \u2062jury produced a report that President Trump&#8217;s legal team tried\u200d to quash on the basis of a potential conflict of interest, alleging Ms. Willis\u2064 was biased and should be\u200c removed from the case. A judge rejected both \u200bmotions, ruling that the \u200c&#8221;prosecutor is not a neutral party and does \u200dnot \u2064need to pretend to be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Former President Trump said in his Monday interview that Ms. Willis &#8220;should focus on \u2062the people that rigged the 2020 presidential election, not those who demand an answer as to what \u2063happened.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just\u2064 like she has allowed Atlanta to go to hell with all of its crime and violence, so too has Joe Biden\u2063 allowed \u200bthe United States of America to go to the \u200dsame place with millions of people invading our country, inflation, bad economy, no energy, and lack of respect\u200c all over the world,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<h2>Partisan Reactions<\/h2>\n<p>As with President Trump&#8217;s previous \u2062indictments, Republican supporters of the GOP frontrunner echoed his\u200d claims of \u2063&#8221;election\u2064 interference&#8221; while Democrats celebrated the latest indictment\u200c as just.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJustice \u2064should\u200c be blind, but Biden has weaponized government against his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/moscow-murders-the-danger-of-standing-up-to-the-russian-regime\/\" title=\"Moscow Murders: The Danger Of Standing Up To The Russian Regime\">leading political opponent<\/a> to interfere in the 2024 \u200celection. \u200cNow a radical \u200cDA in Georgia is following Biden\u2019s lead\u200c by attacking President Trump \u200cand using it to\u200b fundraise her political \u2063career. Americans see through this desperate \u2064sham,\u201d po<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump, indicted for the fourth time this year, spoke to Fox News Digital, addressing the significance of the recent case. 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