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Maya Yang

‘I will never be detained’: Trump defiant in first speech since federal indictment

Donald Trump delivers remarks during the Georgia state Republican convention in Columbus, Georgia.
Donald Trump tells Republicans in Columbus, Georgia, that his recent indictment has ‘driven my poll numbers way up’. Photograph: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Donald Trump delivered his first public address following the announcement of his federal indictment this week in Columbus, Georgia, on Saturday.

The former president took the stage at state Republican conventions in Georgia and North Carolina where he lashed out against the Department of Justice, the FBI and the Biden administration; called his recent indictment “a travesty of justice”; and repeated unsupported conspiratorial claims that Joe Biden had stashed secret documents in the Chinatown neighborhood of Washington DC.

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