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Former President Donald Trump decried the criminal allegations against him in Manhattan as a “fake case” in his first spoken remarks on his criminal indictment Tuesday night, calling on District Attorney Alvin Bragg to resign and slamming the judge overseeing the case as “Trump-hating” just hours after he pleaded not guilty to 34 felony charges in his courtroom.
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In a speech that often veered into campaign rhetoric, Trump claimed the case is politically motivated and has been “brought only to interfere with the upcoming 2024 election,” telling a crowd of supporters inside a Mar-A-Lago ballroom “it should be dropped immediately.”
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