Former President Donald Trump spoke during a visit to a Miami café following his arraignment on Tuesday, thanking the city of Miami.
“We have a rigged country. We have a country that’s corrupt,” Trump said at the Versailles Restaurant, where a number of ministers prayed with the former president after his court appearance. “We have a county that’s got no borders. We have a country that’s got nothing but problems. We’re a nation in decline and then they do this stuff, and you see where the people are.”
“El ex presidente Donald Trump reza con el pastor Mario Bramnick, tercero desde la derecha, y otras personas en el restaurante Versailles el martes 13 de junio de 2023 en Miami,” tweeted Ricardo Robaina.
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Translated to English, “Former President Donald Trump prays with Pastor Mario Bramnick, third from right, and others at Versailles restaurant Tuesday, June 13, 2023, in Miami.”
On Truth Social, Trump posted, “Thank you, Miami. Such a warm welcome on such a SAD DAY for our Country!”
Following the arraignment Tuesday, Tucker Carlson said, “Trump is the one guy with an actual shot of becoming president who dissents from Washington’s longstanding pointless war agenda. And for that, that one fact, they are trying to take Trump out before you can vote for him. And that should upset you more than anything that’s happened in American politics in your lifetime.”
Trump entered a plea of “not guilty” to all counts during his arraignment on Tuesday after Special Counsel Jack Smith secured a grand jury indictment on 37 counts as the result of an investigation into classified documents that were the subject of an Aug. 8, 2022 raid on Mar-a-Lago, the Florida estate Trump owns.
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The indictment was unsealed on Friday by the Justice Department and included charges related to the Espionage Act, making false statements, and “conspiracy to obstruct justice.”
Trump announced last Thursday that he’d been informed of the indictment released Friday, unveiling 31 counts of alleged violations of the Espionage Act tied with Smith’s documents probe and the August raid on Mar-a-Lago. Trump is charged with 37 counts in total.
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Trump pointed to the documents found in the Penn-Biden Center, the president’s think tank in Washington, D.C., and Biden’s Delaware home from his time as vice president, as well as the classified document found in former Vice President Mike Pence’s home. He slammed Smith for being “deranged” and a “Trump-hater,” and criticized the lack of charges brought against both Pence and Biden.
“November 5, 2024, we will stand up to the corrupt political establishment. We will evict a totally corrupt president, Joe Biden, from the White House. We will finish the job that we started, the most successful president,” Trump said.
“The stakes of this election could not be more stark. Either we have a deep state or we have a democracy, we’re going to have one or the other, and we’re right at the tipping point,” said Trump. “Right now we’re way leaning toward deep state but deep state isn’t strong enough. It’s really a communist country, a marxist country — deep state’s not strong enough. Deep state now is a nice term compared to what we’re doing. Either we have a failed country, or a free and successful country, and either they win or we win, it’s very simple. It is simple, they win or you win.”
“This is a sick nest of people that needs to be cleaned out immediately, get em’ out,” said Trump.
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