Former President Donald Trump shortly departed Washington on Thursday after pleading not responsible to 4 federal expenses associated to his efforts to stay in energy after the 2020 election.
“It’s a sad day for America,” Mr. Trump mentioned as he arrived on the tarmac at Reagan National Airport, the place his Boeing 757 was ready.
Mr. Trump, 77, known as the indictment, his third in 4 months, “a persecution of a political opponent [and] the persecution of the person that’s leading by very, very substantial numbers in the Republican primary and leading Biden by a lot.”
Mr. Trump is the undisputed chief within the GOP presidential major and is crushing all his opponents by double digits within the polls. In some common election polls, he leads President Biden by just a few proportion factors and trails him by just a few factors in others.
“So if you can’t beat him, you persecute him or you prosecuted him,” Mr. Trump mentioned. “We can’t let this happen in America, thank you very much.”
Mr. Trump traveled Thursday from his summer time dwelling at his golf resort in Bedminster, New Jersey, to Washington for his first courtroom look on the Jan. 6 expenses. He was processed by the U.S. Marshals Service, which included taking his fingerprints and giving private info. A mugshot was not taken as a result of his image is publicly obtainable in line with the Marshal’s Service.
Mr. Trump offered commentary on the state of Washington’s streets, which he considered out his SUV window as he drove to and from the airport.
Mr. Trump mentioned he was saddened at “the decay, and all of the broken buildings and walls and the graffiti.”
“This is not the place that I left. It’s a very sad thing to see it,” he mentioned.
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