‘There Was No Crime Here’: Trump Maintains His Innocence Despite Guilty Verdict In NY Trial

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On Friday, former President Trump delivered remarks after receiving a guilty verdict in his NYC hush money trial.

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00:00 It's a very sad thing that's happening in our country.

00:04 And it's a thing that I'm honored.

00:07 In a way, I'm honored.

00:09 It's not that it's pleasant.

00:10 It's very bad for family.

00:13 It's very bad for friends and businesses.

00:16 But I'm honored to be involved in it because somebody has to do it, and I might as well

00:20 keep going and be the one.

00:22 But I'm very honored to be involved because we're fighting for our Constitution.

00:26 The money that was paid was paid legally.

00:32 There was nothing illegal.

00:34 In fact, the lawyer in creating the NDA -- because at that time, he was a fully accredited lawyer.

00:40 He wasn't a fixer.

00:41 I never thought of him as a fixer.

00:44 The media called him a fixer, or the prosecutors called him a fixer.

00:48 He was a lawyer.

00:50 And he was fairly good.

00:52 Later on, I didn't like what he did.

00:54 I didn't like -- for instance, I didn't like that when I became President, he went around

00:58 and made deals with companies.

01:01 When I heard that, he was gone.

01:03 He was gone.

01:05 And he had payments coming to him.

01:09 And a lot of this involved things that are very simple.

01:12 There was nothing wrong.

01:13 These were standard -- this was standard stuff.

01:15 All standard stuff.

01:18 Everything involved was standard.

01:19 There was no crime here.

01:20 In fact, I just watched a couple of the reports.

01:24 You watched Jonathan Turley, Andy McCarthy, Greg Jarrett.

01:28 You look at all of these people.

01:31 Mark Levin.

01:33 All very talented people.

01:35 Great people.

01:36 Many more.

01:38 Many more.

01:39 And they don't know me, essentially.

01:41 They don't know me.

01:42 They're legal scholars and experts.

01:45 But I look at them.

01:46 I watched Turley this morning saying, "There's no crime here."

01:52 Everybody says there's no crime here, except for this DA that's got the city out of control

01:58 with crime.

01:59 It's out of -- it's absolutely out of control.

02:01 So we have an NDA that was signed.

02:04 We have legal expenses.

02:05 And here's the thing on legal expenses.

02:11 You have 100 where they say they do a charge.

02:15 I just recorded this out.

02:19 Falsification of business records in the first degree.

02:22 It sounds so bad.

02:23 I said, "Wow."

02:25 And even my own lawyers, I get very upset with them because they don't say what it is.

02:32 They say, "Well, falsification of legal records is only a felony."

02:38 Well, that's a lot.

02:39 It's only a -- they say a misdemeanor.

02:42 But they try and bring it up to a felony if there's two crimes.

02:44 They have all these different things.

02:46 The other thing is they missed the statute of limitations by a lot.

02:50 Because this was very old.

02:51 They could have brought this seven years ago instead of bringing it right in the middle

02:54 of the election.

02:55 So they missed the statute of limitations.

02:57 They did everything.

‘There Was No Crime Here’: Trump Maintains His Innocence Despite Guilty Verdict In NY Trial

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