Former President Donald Trump warned President Joe Biden that he, too, could face indictments when his term ends.
Trump made his comments in a nearly 6-minute video posted on Truth Social on Monday night.
"Because of Joe Biden, I spend a lot of time in courts – federal, state, city – and tomorrow I'll be attending another Biden-inspired federal appeals court argument on presidential immunity in Washington, D.C.," Trump said. "Of course, I was entitled as president of the United States and commander-in-chief to immunity. I'm entitled to immunity, every president has immunity, especially one that did the job I did.
"I did a great job, and I wasn't working for myself, I was working for the country. I wasn't campaigning, the election was long over. Wasn't campaigning. I was looking for voter fraud, something that I have to do under my mandate. I have to look for voter fraud, and I was finding it. Tremendous amounts of voter fraud in the 2020 election.
"We have volumes of information. It's all there. I was doing my job, which I had to do. It's my obligation to do."
Trump also trumpeted his record as president.
"We didn't have Russia going into Ukraine," he said. "We didn't have Israel under attack. We didn't have China talking every day about going into Taiwan. We didn't have inflation. We had a great economy.
"If I don't get immunity, then crooked Joe Biden doesn't get immunity and all of the things he's done to allow the border invasion. Millions of millions of people coming into our country. Many from prisons, jails, mental institutions, insane asylums. … Many terrorists coming into our country. That's really allowing insurrection. And come into a situation where he allowed the surrender to Afghanistan. The United States of America surrendered to Afghanistan.
"This is gross incompetence. We did a surrender in Afghanistan. Nothing has ever been so embarrassing in the history of our country. Also, the millions of millions of dollars that went into Joe Biden's pockets with money from foreign countries, like Russia, Afghanistan, China, many others.
"Joe would be ripe for indictment. So you're saying Trump shouldn't get immunity, but Joe Biden would? We have a Manchurian candidate in Joe Biden. We have to get him out. He's the worst president in the history of our country, by far. He's also the most corrupt president.
"They are running a political campaign in a dirty way – even worse than they did previously.
"Frankly, it's never happened in our country before. It only happens in third-world countries or banana republics. They're using their department of injustice to go after his political (opponents), and this is all him, 100 percent him. He's the one that told them to do it and they obey his orders. It's a shame.
"Never happened in the United States before, but it's happened now. And he has to be careful because that could happen to him, also. The next president, whoever that may be, has a statute of limitations that go back six years. That's a long time, Joe. You have to be very careful. We have to guard and protect our country. We have to do what's right for our country."
Trump added: "You don't indict your political opponent because he opposes the corrupt election, which you know was corrupt; everybody knows it was corrupt. The American public knows it was corrupt."
Jeffrey Rodack ✉
Jeffrey Rodack, who has nearly a half century in news as a senior editor and city editor for national and local publications, has covered politics for Newsmax for nearly seven years.
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