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President-elect Donald Trump criticized the ongoing “law” against him during his first public statements since Congress certified his decisive election victory over Vice President Kamala Harris.
“They’re playing the courts, as you know, they’ve been playing the courts for four years. They probably got me the most votes because I got the most votes ever by a Republican by far, actually, by an I, already you know we had a great election so i guess it didn’t work but even today they are playing with the courts and they are nice judges they like to make everyone happy… It’s called law, it’s called weaponization of the justice,” Trump said Tuesday during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago.
Trump held the news conference, his first since Congress certified his election victory on Monday, to announce that DAMAC Properties will invest $20 billion in new data centers across the country. DAMAC owner Hussain Sajwani said the investment is aimed at facilitating the development of AI and cloud-based technologies.
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DAMAC Properties CEO Hussain Sajwani, right, makes remarks alongside President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida on January 7, 2025. (REUTERS/Carlos Barria)
Trump pointed to the legal battles he has faced over the past four years during the speech, attacking special counsel Jack Smith as well as New York Judge Juan Merchan.
“I call it the Department of Justice. What they’ve done is so bad, the whole world has seen it. And, it took work, but it got me a lot of votes, because when it was explained to them, we have a judge in New York is a very crooked judge,” he said, referring to Judge Juan Merchan, who is presiding over the New York v. Trump case. “I’m under a gag order. I can’t even talk about aspects of the case that are the most vital aspects I’m going to do. You know I’m the president-elect of the United States of America. I’m a very successful former president.”
Merchan announced earlier this month that he will sentence Trump in the New York v. Trump case on Jan. 10, ahead of his Jan. 20 inauguration. Trump’s legal team filed a motion to delay the sentencing, which Merchan denied Monday afternoon. .
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“Today, President Trump’s legal team moved to stop the illegal sentence in the Manhattan DA’s witch hunt. The Supreme Court’s historic decision on immunity, the New York state constitutionand another legal mandate in place for this meritless hoax to be dismissed immediately,” Trump spokesman and White House communications director Steven Cheung told Fox Digital on Monday morning.
President-elect Donald Trump delivers remarks at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida on January 7, 2025. (REUTERS/Carlos Barria)
“The American people elected President Trump with an overwhelming mandate that demands an immediate end to the political weaponization of our justice system and all remaining witch hunts. We look forward to uniting our country in the new administration , as President Trump makes America great again,” Cheung continued.
Trump was found guilty of 34 counts of forgery business records in the Manhattan case in May. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office worked to prove Trump falsified business records to hide a $130,000 payment to former porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election to shut down his claims about an alleged relationship with Trump in 2006. Trump has maintained his innocence in the case.
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Smith, who led the investigation into Trump’s handling of classified documents after his first term in the White House, will release a final report on the investigation. Two of Trump’s former co-defendants in the classified documents case, Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, filed an emergency motion on Monday to try to block the release of the report.
Judge Juan M. Merchan poses in his chambers in New York on March 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
“These defendants will suffer irreparable harm as civilian victims of the Government’s impermissible and forceful use of political law to include the unauthorized publication of the report,” Nauta and De Oliveira’s lawyers wrote in a motion ’emergency presented on Monday. “The final report is based on materials that Smith, as a disqualified special counsel, is no longer entitled to access, making his attempt to share those materials with the public highly inappropriate.”
The judge presiding over the case blocked Smith’s efforts to release the report on Tuesday.
Trump blasted Smith as a “mess” during his remarks on Tuesday while taking a victory lap that court cases filed against him since the 2020 election have faded since the 2024 election. Trump has maintained his innocence in the various state and federal cases brought against him, arguing that they were examples of “lettering” intended to hinder his campaign to reclaim the White House.
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Special Counsel Jack Smith speaks during a news conference in Washington, DC, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“I defeated deranged Jack Smith. He’s a deranged individual. I guess he’s on his way back to The Hague. And we won those cases. They were the biggest ones. And the press made a big deal out of it. But we didn’t nothing wrong with anything And people saw it, when they did vote for when you went Republicans,” he said.
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Fox News Digital’s Anders Hagstrom and Brooke Singman contributed to this report.
