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President Trump provided comments about his third indictment to town hall attendees in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Tuesday, calling Joe Biden’s Department of Justice an “absolute weapon” for Democrats.
“What’s happening to our country, whether it’s the borders, or the elections, or kinds of things like this where the DOJ has become a weapon for the Democrats—an absolute weapon—and it seems that every time my polls—you know we’re leading by a lot, and we’re leading by a lot in a place called Iowa,” Trump told town hall host Sean Hannity of Fox News.
He continued, “Not only with the Republicans, but we’re leading against Biden by a tremendous amount. They haven’t seen anything like it, and they feel, I guess, they want to try and demean, and diminish, and frighten people, but they don’t frighten us because we’re going to make America great again.”
Trump himself confirmed that he received a target letter from Special Counsel Jack Smith and the Justice Department on Sunday night shortly after returning home from the Turning Point Action Conference.
According to Trump, Smith reportedly gave him just “a very short 4 days to report to the Grand Jury, which always means an Arrest or Indictment.”
Trump was previously indicted on two other occasions: the first over alleged hush-money payments to Stormy Daniels in 2016, and the second over his reported mishandling of classified material.
Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home was raided by the FBI in August 2022 as a result of the so-called document scandal. Meanwhile, Joe Biden’s garage in Delaware, which reportedly had classified material littered around his Corvette, has not received an ounce of scrutiny from officials or the mainstream media.
During his town hall, Trump criticized the Justice Department for their biased refusal to investigate Biden over his identical, if not worse, alleged document scandal.
“I’m protected by the Presidential Records Act, and they come up with this obscure crazy theory, a madman theory. This guy [Jack Smith] is a deranged prosecutor who’s had tremendous failures all over the place,” Trump told Hannity.
He continued, “Biden has many thousands—I mean he’s got two thousand, almost two thousand boxes of documents—they can’t get to him, because the college or whatever that has them doesn’t want to give them, and he probably told the college.”
Biden reportedly has more classified materials that he was not authorized to have in Chinatown, D.C., and the Penn Biden Center, according to officials, some of which date back to when he was a senator.
“You’re only covered by the Presidential Records Act when you’re president. Joe Biden wasn’t president,” Trump said.
Trump also suggested that many of his political opponents, most notably Hillary Clinton and James Comey, weaponized the federal government against him from the start of his political career to spy on his campaign and presidency.
Trump praised his decision to fire then-FBI Director Comey “very early,” but maintained that his firing was like “you threw a rock at a hornet’s nest.”
“I said [Comey] is bad news. I realized it very early—very early in the administration—I fired him, and it was wild. That’s when we found out about all of the corruption,” said Trump.
“You think they would’ve destroyed you?” Hannity asked.
“Well, they were trying to take me out,” Trump responded. “It was like a coup.”
He continued, “Comey was a very bad guy. And Comey led that group of thugs in there, and they were doing a number. It’s very dishonest. It’s years and years of putting people—Democrats and RINOs and other people—but putting them in to office, and we got rid of a lot of them, but we’re going to get rid of a lot more.”
The timing of Trump’s third indictment is also questionable, as it came three days before an IRS whistleblower provided bombshell testimony to the House Oversight Committee regarding Joe and Hunter Biden’s alleged bribery scheme.
The third indictment is related to the 45th president’s role in the events of Jan. 6. Government officials and mainstream press have accused him of incitement and insurrection due to his attempts to contest the 2020 presidential election results.
Despite Trump repeatedly calling for peace amongst supporters on Jan. 6, as made evident in a tweet from that day where he said, “I am asking everyone at the U.S. Capitol to remain peaceful,” Democrats, including Biden, have repeatedly accused him of inciting an “insurrection.”
Biden also suggested that he would use legal maneuvers to ensure that Trump “does not become the president again.”
“We just have to demonstrate that he will not take power if he does run, making sure he — under legitimate efforts of our Constitution — does not become the next president again,” Biden said during a press conference in November 2022.
Just nine days after Biden made these comments, his Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Special Counsel Jack Smith to begin a series of investigations into Trump, the current presidential frontrunner for 2024.
One measure from the Constitution, Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, could disqualify Trump from running for president or serving as president if elected.
This article bars anyone who has “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the United States, which Democrats have accused Trump of doing.
In New Mexico, a former county commissioner, Republican Couy Griffin, was removed from office by the state’s Supreme Court (controlled by Democrats) for simply being outside on Capitol grounds on Jan. 6.
Should the Biden administration’s investigations—although previously unsuccessful—succeed, it may spell bad news for the nation.
