Speaking aboard Trump Farce One after his lengthy diatribe against the government he wants to head, indicted former president Donald Trump said he would “never leave” the presidential race even if he’s convicted of the various crimes he’s already accused of and any future charges, Politico reports.
Perhaps acknowledging that his best path to freedom is getting reelected and granting himself a Constitutionally-questionable pardon, Trump said, “I’ll never leave. Look, if I would have left, I would have left prior to the original race in 2016. That was a rough one. In theory that was not doable,” adding about Special Counsel Jack Smith, “These are thugs and degenerates who are after me.”
“Nobody wants to be indicted,” said Trump. “I don’t care that my poll numbers went up by a lot. I don’t want to be indicted. I’ve never been indicted. I went through my whole life, now I get indicted every two months. It’s been political.” Although Trump had never personally been indicted for a crime prior to 2023, he and his company had been the subject of numerous investigations and inquiries which have ended with his business or his lackeys fined or in jail.