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Salon
Salon
Politics
Nandika Chatterjee

Trump blames "devil" judge for verdict

In remarks that could best be described as a rant, former President Donald Trump spoke out Friday against a “very unfair” trial wherein a “devil" — Judge Juan Merchan — supposedly prevented him from being exonerated.

“I would have testified, I wanted to testify,” Trump told reporters. He said the prevailing “theory” is that one must should never testify, even “if it were George Washington,” because a single untruth could be charged as perjury, but he “didn’t care” and still wanted to testify.

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