Speaking at an outdoor rally at Central Wisconsin Airport, Mr Trump claimed: “The Harris-Biden DoJ (Department of Justice) is trying to throw me in jail – they want me in jail – for the crime of exposing their corruption.” There is no evidence that either President Biden or vice president Ms Harris have had any influence over decisions by the justice department or local jurisdictions to indict Mr Trump. The former president was speaking a day after appearing in court for an appeal against a decision that found him liable for sexual abuse – returning attention to his many indictments and criminal conviction.
After his appearance, Mr Trump delivered a lengthy statement to news cameras in which he brought up a string of past allegations of other acts of sexual misconduct – at times in graphic language – potentially reminding voters of incidents that were little-known or forgotten. Hours later, a Manhattan judge announced that the sentencing in his hush money case had been postponed until after the November election, granting the presidential candidate a hard-won reprieve. The sentencing had previously been scheduled for September 18, about seven weeks before election day.
At the rally, Mr Trump again criticised Ms Harris in dark and ominous language, claiming that if the woman he calls “Comrade Kamala Harris gets four more years, we will be living in a full-blown Banana Republic ruled by anarchy”. A BEAUTIFUL AFTERNOON IN WISCONSIN, THANK YOU! #MAGA2024 pic.twi.