Former President Donald #Trump says he and other presidents need to be granted #immunity to do their jobs as he spoke to reporters on Tuesday after appearing at a hearing in Washington over the real estate mogul-turned-politician's appeal claiming he is immune from charges in a federal case accusing him of illegally attempting to overturn his defeat in the 2020 #election. The former president used examples from the Biden and Obama administrations to support his argument. Trump also took some time to criticize New York Attorney General Letitia James over fraud accusations he continues to face in a New York City court.
well I want to thank you all and we had
a I thought very momentous day in terms
of what was learned and what they've
conceded they conceded two major points
that were uh they were right in doing it
I don't think they had much of a choice
but they're very very big very powerful
points and I think we're doing very well
I think it's very unfair when a opponent
a political opponent is prosecuted by
the doj by Biden's
doj uh so they're losing in every
they're losing in almost every
demographic uh numbers came out today
that are uh really very mindboggling if
you happen to be Joe Biden and I think
they feel this is the way they're going
to try and win and that's not the way it
goes that it'll be bedum in the country
it's a very bad thing it's a very bad
precedent as we said it's the opening of
a Pandora's Box and that's a very that's
a very sad thing that's happened with
this whole situation
when they talk about threat to democracy
that's your real threat to
democracy and I feel that as a president
you have to have immunity very simple
and if you don't as an example if uh
this case were lost to an immunity and I
did nothing wrong absolutely nothing
wrong I'm working for the country and I
worked on uh very hard on voter fraud
because we have to have free elections
we have to have strong voters we have to
have free elections those two things
almost above all and we found tremendous
vter FR we have a list of it we have
some findings if you want it the Press
doesn't like reporting it but we found
tremendous vter for determinative vter
for but we worked on that that's what I
was doing and uh they were talking about
after well nothing has to do with after
I left it was during the time and that
was what they really focused on today
during the appeal and they con seeed
that and every everybody concedes that
and if it's during the time you have
absolute immunity so uh we'll see how it
all works out we have
uh a great argument we have an argument
with they conceded two major points
today in fact I think it's probably a
concession you have to ask the lawyers
Todd if you'd like to talk about it but
they conceded two points that I think
were uh by normal standards if it
weren't me that would be the end of this
case but sometimes they look at me
differently than they look upon others
and that's very bad for our country uh
you had a very big event yesterday as
you saw in
Georgia where the district attorney is
totally compromised the case has to be
dropped uh they went after I guess 18 or
20 people they wanted to go after a lot
of other people they wanted to go after
Senators she was out of her mind now it
turns out that that case is totally
compromised in fact they say she's in
Far More criminal liability than any of
the people she's looking at so I think
that when you look at what happened
where they pay a lawyer with absolutely
no experience
$700,000 who happens to be her lover or
her boyfriend and then they go on trips
and vacations together very expensive
vacations together and the reason they
paid him so much because he was after me
because this way they can afford to pay
him a lot more probably passes certain
test and that's a very sad thing that
happen in Georgia and I would imagine
that case is going to be
dropped every legal analyst that I've
spoken to every legal analysts that I've
read have said that case is so
compromised now it has to be dropped
very good people were very badly hurt by
that case it's a shame very good people
people did nothing wrong uh they did
nothing different than what Democrats
have been doing for years and years and
years whether it's slates or anything
else that you're talking about but they
were very hurt and it turns out that uh
she profited tremendously in that case
it's illegal what she did is illegal so
we'll let the state handle that but what
a what a sad situation it is I want to
thank everybody for the fairness we've
been covered very fairly most people
agree that uh we're entitled as a
president to immunity if you didn't have
immunity as an example uh Joe Biden with
the prosecutor we're not going to give
you a billion dollars unless you get rid
of the prosecutor that's after that's
after the company or his son or whoever
it is they're after but he wanted that
prosecuted G and he's on tape saying it
or you could say the horrible job he's
done at the border where our country is
being destroyed or the
horrible situation that took place the
lowest moment I think in the history of
our country was Afghanistan the way we
withdrew not that we withdrew but the
way we with through with with shame we
surrendered uh people killed 13 great
soldiers killed many unbelievably
horrifically hurt wounded hurt and
hundreds of people died on both sides
hundreds of people died he could be
prosecuted for that so you can't have a
president uh without immunity you have
to have as a president you have to be
able to do your job but if this didn't
work out if I wasn't given immunity then
other presidents when we talked about
today President Obama with the drone
strikes which were
very bad they were mistakes terrible
mistakes and you can't put a you really
can't put a president in that position
so I think most people understand it and
we feel very confident that
eventually uh hopefully at this level
but eventually we win a president has to
have immunity and the other thing is I
did nothing wrong we did nothing wrong
uh the investigation of the election
which was a rigged election everybody
knows it and just if you just look at
they didn't use State legislatures and
they didn't uh they went to the FBI and
you look at FBI and Twitter the Twitter
files with the FBI all of the horrible
things uh fisa the fisa court to sign
documents the line to Congress and the
stuffing of the ballot Bo boxes all on
tape stuffing of ballot boxes all on
tape government tape and most of the
information as you know we'll give you
some of the findings that just came out
but all of that information as you know
was gotten from Mostly government
sources government tapes government
files and government stats so it's uh
very sad when something like that
happens you know you wouldn't have
inflation but much more importantly you
wouldn't have had the Ukraine situation
with Russia you wouldn't have had the
attack on Israel you'd have a much
different economy right now you'd have a
great economy and we would be respect
all over the world the way we were just
3 years ago so I want to thank everybody
very much and we uh we think we had a
very good day today the concession of
these two major points was pretty
amazing and uh honestly I'm very glad
they did it I think they did the right
thing