Former President Donald Trump said on Friday that following his guilty verdict in the Manhattan hush-money trial, he is “the political prisoner of a failing nation.”
Trump took to his social media platform Truth Social on Friday evening to comment on his conviction after he was found guilty of 34 charges of falsifying business records. The presumptive Republican nominee also held a press conference on Friday afternoon to discuss the verdict in the trial that Trump has slammed as a political “witch hunt” and “election interference.”
“I AM THE POLITICAL PRISONER OF A FAILING NATION, BUT I WILL SOON BE FREE, NOVEMBER 5TH, AND MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” Trump wrote, referring to Election Day, which he has said will be when Americans hand down the “real verdict.”
Minutes before that post, Trump said, “These are Dark Days in America.”
“After sitting for five weeks…
