Former President Donald Trump offered up a fiery response to a “wise guy question” offered about a potential fourth indictment in the near future.
“It’s called election interference. You know what that is?”
(Video: RSBN)
Saturday, the president was departing the Iowa State Fair with his entourage when a member of the press sought a comment on Fulton County, Georgia’s District Attorney Fani Willis (D) presenting her case to a grand jury.
Previous reports had suggested the possibility of racketeering and conspiracy charges against Trump related to alleged attempts to “overturn the 2020 presidential election” in the state and so he was asked, “Is there any chance you take a plea deal in Georgia?”
“We did nothing wrong. We don’t ever take a plea deal. We don’t take plea deals. It’s a wise guy question. You’re just a wise guy,” the onetime commander-in-chief asserted surrounded by a travel party that included GOP Florida Reps. Byron Donalds, Matt Gaetz, Anna Paulina Luna, Brian Mast, Cory Mills, Greg Steube and Mike Waltz as well as Texas Rep. Wesley Hunt.
“We don’t take plea deals because I did nothing wrong. It’s called election interference,” Trump slammed. “You know what that is? Because these indictments are going out by Biden, who can’t even put two sentences together.”
“This is Joe Biden because he can’t win the election by himself,” the primary frontrunner continued. “He can’t win the election based on votes. So what they did is they got the attorney general to do it. And then you see how stupid they acted yesterday with the appointment of the special counsel. They call it special counsel. And what a crazy thing that was. And it’s being laughed at all over the world.”
To Trump’s point on Attorney General Merrick Garland’s appointment of Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss as special counsel to oversee the probe of Hunter Biden, George Washington University Law School Professor Jonathan Turley had indicated it was a missed opportunity.
“The problem with this appointment is manifest,” he told Fox News host Martha MacCallum. “You know, Garland had the opportunity to do two things to regain the trust of the public. He could have appointed someone else as special counsel, and he could have expanded the mandate.”
Turley: Garland missed opportunity to bolster public trust in DOJ with transparency, may fuel impeachment push https://t.co/QgporAgjYi via @BIZPACReview
— BPR based (@DumpstrFireNews) August 12, 2023
“He could have said, look, there are a lot of concerns about influence peddling crimes associated with the Biden family. We’re going to have all of those investigated independently, and the facts will take it where it needs to lead. He didn’t do that,” contended Turley.
“Instead, he kept on referring to the mandate of investigating Hunter Biden,” the professor went on, “and he appointed the individual who’s been criticized for weeks, accused by whistleblowers of being the head of what they suggest was a fixed investigation. Now that’s obviously not going to help the public trust any.”
On the tarmac outside his plane, Trump continued with a nod to his entourage, “The fact is that we have a country that’s in serious trouble. We have a country that’s in major decline. I don’t mean decline, I mean major decline, and we’re gonna straighten it out — this group and a lot of people just like this group — we’re gonna straighten it out and we’re gonna make America great again.”
Before thanking the press, he added in one last “wise guy” to the delight of supporters.
LOOOOOOVE IT!!!! #WiseGuy!!!!
— Melissa (@m44693760) August 12, 2023
He is correct, it is election interference. Thats what the case is all about.
— Jackson T Pennyworth (@JacksPennyworth) August 13, 2023
— ✝️️Such A Time As This (@Such_A_Time316) August 12, 2023
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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