{"id":2257446,"date":"2024-06-01T12:41:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-01T16:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-says-he-is-the-political-prisoner-of-a-failing-nation\/"},"modified":"2024-06-01T12:43:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T16:43:00","slug":"trump-says-he-is-the-political-prisoner-of-a-failing-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-says-he-is-the-political-prisoner-of-a-failing-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Claims He&#8217;s a Victim of a Failing Nation&#8217;s Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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-says-he-is-the-political-prisoner-of-a-failing-nation%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=2257446&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--><p>Former\u200c President Donald Trump, following a guilty verdict in the Manhattan \u200bhush-money trial, declared himself the &#8220;political prisoner of a failing nation.&#8221; Trump criticized the\u200b trial as a &#8220;witch hunt&#8221; and &#8220;election interference.&#8221; He\u2064 expressed confidence in his freedom by November 5th to &#8220;Make America Great Again.&#8221; Trump accused President Joe Biden of targeting him\u200d through criminal\u200d trials but maintains \u2062a lead in polls over Biden. Biden&#8217;s campaign celebrated Trump&#8217;s\u2064 guilty verdict, emphasizing the challenge\u200c at the ballot box in November.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump said on Friday that following his guilty verdict in the Manhattan hush-money trial, he is \u201cthe political prisoner of a failing nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump took to his social media platform Truth Social on Friday evening to comment on his conviction after he was found guilty of 34 charges of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/are-the-charges-brought-against-the-trump-organizations-cfo-part-of-a-witch-hunt-experts-weigh-in\/\" title=\"Are The Charges Brought Against The Trump Organization\u2019s CFO Part Of A Witch Hunt? Experts Weigh In\">falsifying business records<\/a>. The presumptive Republican nominee also held a press conference on Friday afternoon to discuss the verdict in the trial that Trump has slammed as a political \u201cwitch hunt\u201d and \u201celection interference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI AM THE POLITICAL PRISONER OF A FAILING NATION, BUT I WILL SOON BE FREE, NOVEMBER 5TH, AND MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!\u201d Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/112538252078005702\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a>, referring to Election Day, which he has said will be when Americans hand down the \u201creal verdict.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Minutes before that post, Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/112538226485324582\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>, \u201cThese are Dark Days in America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter sitting for five weeks through that Rigged Trial in Lower Manhattan, which was surrounded by vast but unnecessary numbers of New York\u2019s Finest in order to keep law abiding MAGA patriots away, and as I watched insignificant numbers of fully funded Radical Left troublemakers, with brand new and gleaming professionally made signs, screaming and cursing from areas said to be closed to us, and all others, I realized that Reason, Truth, and Love of our Country is no longer a force of Good and Change. These are Dark Days in America!\u201d Trump wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The former president has argued that his political rival, President Joe Biden, has targeted him in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-diverting-more-donations-from-pac-to-pay-for-mounting-legal-fees\/\" title=\"Trump using more PAC donations to cover increasing legal expenses.\">multiple criminal trials<\/a> to keep him off the campaign trail. Despite his four criminal trials \u2014 and now, one conviction \u2014 Trump remains ahead of Biden in most polls, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RealClearPolitics<\/a> average.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-campaign-celebrates-trumps-guilty-verdict\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">celebrated<\/a> Trump\u2019s guilty verdict on Thursday, but added that the president can only defeat the Republican presidential candidate at the ballot box in November.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn New York today, we saw that no one is above the law,\u201d a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BidenHQ\/status\/1796296637133853110?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1796296637133853110%7Ctwgr%5E0615d75f8a01bc17e2c2a835c4b06975549b7624%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fbiden-campaign-celebrates-trumps-guilty-verdict\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a> from Biden Campaign Communications Director Michael Tyler said. \u201cDonald Trump has always mistakenly believed he would never face consequences for breaking the law for his own personal gain. But today\u2019s verdict does not change the fact that the American people face a simple reality. There is still only one way to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office: at the ballot box. Convicted felon or not, Trump will be the Republican nominee for president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1716990157394000&#038;usg=AOvVaw33qQydjIo8bet419amChif\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Shortly after his conviction, Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trump-raises-staggering-sum-of-cash-in-24-hours-since-verdict\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">raised<\/a> a staggering $52.8 million, which included a large amount of new donors, according to his campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the 24 hours since Crooked Joe Biden and his New York henchmen got their sham trial verdict, the Trump Campaign has raised $52.8 million through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-raises-staggering-sum-of-cash-in-24-hours-since-verdict\/\" title=\"Trump Raises Massive Amount of Funds Within 24 Hours After Verdict\">online digital fundraising platform<\/a>,\u201d the Trump campaign said in a statement. \u201cTHAT\u2019S MORE THAN $2 MILLION PER HOUR!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith more than one third of these donors being new to the campaign, it is clear that more and more Americans are seeing through the Biden election interference and joining President Trump in the movement to save our nation,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-President Trump labeled himself as a &#8220;political prisoner&#8221; after a guilty verdict in the Manhattan hush-money case, citing a nation in decline. 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