At the start of the year, Trump was facing 91 felony counts across four different criminal cases, two brought by special counsel Jack Smith, the third pursued by Manhattan prosecutors, and fourth from the district attorney’s office in Fulton County, Georgia. He pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Trump was convicted of 34 counts of falsifying business records in the New York case, and on Monday, a federal judge in Florida dismissed one of Smith’s cases stemming from Trump’s alleged handling of sensitive government documents after leaving office in January 2021.
Proceedings in the other two cases, relating to the 2020 election, have been delayed while other matters are litigated.
Trump has repeatedly claimed that the prosecutions are politically motivated “witch hunts” designed to harm his candidacy, though there is no evidence Mr. Biden has been involved in any of them.
He urged Democrats in his speech to “drop these partisan witch hunts — which I have been going through for approximately eight years — and they should do that without delay, and allow an election to proceed that is worthy of our people.”
“We’re going to win it anyway,” Trump said.
The former president also said political disagreement should not be demonized and dissent criminalized.
“In that spirit, the Democrat Party should immediately stop weaponizing the justice system and labeling their political opponent as an enemy of democracy, especially since that is not true,” Trump said. “In fact, I am the one saving democracy for the people of our country.”
