A vehemently defiant Donald Trump has been railing against “deranged” Jack Smith on Truth Social since his arrests and indictments. In his latest rant, he basically said that Jack Smith is full of sh*t and that the former president never sought to delete, edit or damage the Mar-a-Lago security tapes in any way. Trump also said that Smith’s and the other indictments against him are turning the US into a “banana republic.”
Trump, the double-digit front-runner in the race to win the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, addressed two criminal cases he’s facing: one involving classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago after he left office and one in which he’s accused of trying to overturn the 2020 Georgia election results.
As he did previously on Truth Social, Trump denied he sought to have security footage at his private residence destroyed.
“The Security Tapes from Mar-a-Lago that evil and sinister prosecutor, Deranged Jack Smith, ‘leaked’ or otherwise stated were deleted or altered were, in fact, NOT deleted or altered,” Trump posted at 1:35 a.m. Saturday.
“It was a Fake Story put out by the government THUGS. Those tapes were openly handed over without protest or litigation, and then the ‘Deranged One’ makes me look as bad as possible. The whole case is FAKE because I come under the Presidential Records Act. [President Joe] Biden or [former Vice President Mike] Pence did not!”
Trump took to Truth Social following a week that culminated with his booking Thursday in Georgia. Fulton County Democrat District Attorney Fani Willis indicted Trump and 18 others on charges of trying to overturn the state’s 2020 election results.
Before those posts, Trump lamented about the country’s “dark days.”
“America is becoming a Banana Republic. That’s what happens when you Indict and Prosecute your Political Opponent. These are DARK DAYS in the life of America!” Trump posted.
“‘It’s very ironic because if Prosecutor Willis is really concerned about Election denialism and using the levers of government and public influence to have some kind of conspiracy to overturn a genuine ballot, then she would have gone after Stacey Abrams, who’s in her own state.’ Victor Davis Hanson, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution,” the former president posted.