Former U.S. President Donald Trump denounced charges of plotting to overturn the 2020 election loss as "fake", one day after his arraignment in Washington DC. - REUTERS
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00:00 Former President Donald Trump appeared a day after his arraignment in Washington, D.C.
00:07 facing charges of subverting the 2020 election and told his supporters in Alabama that his
00:13 legal troubles wouldn't hinder his 2024 campaign.
00:17 Every time they file an indictment, we go way up in the polls.
00:21 We need one more indictment to close out this election.
00:25 One more indictment and this election is closed out.
00:30 Nobody has even a chance.
00:32 Speaking at a Republican dinner, Trump called the charges outlined in his indictment an
00:36 act of desperation by the Biden administration.
00:39 The fake charges put forth in their sham indictment are an outrageous criminalization of political
00:44 speech disorders.
00:46 You make a statement, "Oh, we have to indict him because he said we were dishonest.
00:51 Let's indict him."
00:52 They're trying to make it illegal to question the results of a bad election.
00:58 It was a very bad election.
00:59 Everybody knows that.
01:00 The former president faces four felonies over his efforts to undo his 2020 election loss
01:06 to Biden, including conspiracy to defraud the U.S., to deprive citizens of their voting
01:11 rights and to obstruct an official proceeding.
01:15 The most serious charge carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.
01:20 He pleaded not guilty to the charges brought by special counsel Jack Smith, who he called
01:25 on Friday.
01:26 The deranged sick person.
01:28 Then on Friday, Trump pleaded not guilty to three new charges relating to his handling
01:33 of U.S.-classified documents after he left the White House in 2021.
01:38 The new charges against Trump in the documents case include an additional count for unlawful
01:42 retention of national defense information and two more counts of obstruction of justice.
01:47 U.S. prosecutors on Friday also made a filing flagging a threatening social media post from
01:52 Donald Trump.
01:54 The former president wrote, "If you go after me, I'm coming after you" on his Truth Social
01:59 site, which prosecutors argued it suggests he might intimidate witnesses by improperly
02:04 disclosing evidence.
02:06 Trump's other legal woes include charges in the state of New York over hush money payments
02:10 to a porn star and an ongoing investigation in Georgia on whether he illegally interfered
02:15 with the state's 2020 election.
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