Former President Donald Trump was greeted with thunderous cheers at the Ultimate Fighting Champion (UFC) match on Saturday, as the crowd chanted, “F**ck Joe Biden.”
Trump entered The Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, and shook the hands of people in the stands to the backdrops of cheers.
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President Donald Trump is in the building! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸#UFC302 | LIVE on TNT Sports & discovery+ pic.twitter.com/5GxqLnWbzI
— UFC on TNT Sports (@ufcontnt) June 2, 2024
Fox News reported: Trump walked into the arena with UFC president Dana White. He also stopped for a second to greet comedian Theo Von. Trump shook the hands of some fans and waved to the crowd.
The former president then took his spot just outside the UFC Octagon and readied to watch the main card.
It was one of Trump’s first public appearances since he was found guilty on all counts in a New York criminal trial on Thursday.
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The @ufc audience has broken out in a chant and I don’t think @JoeBiden’s gonna like it.
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) June 2, 2024
This is the mood in America when you try to throw the leading candidate for president in prison because you can’t beat him fairly Joe. pic.twitter.com/MAaD59Feqj
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg charged Trump with 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. Trump pleaded not guilty to all counts.
“This was a disgrace. This was a rigged trial by a conflicted judge who was corrupt as a rigged trial and disgrace. It wouldn’t give us a venue change,” Trump said afterward. “We were at five percent or 6% in this district, in this area. This was a rigged, disgraceful trial.”
Trump said “the real verdict is going to be November 5th by the people.”
“And they know what happened here and everybody knows what happened here,” Trump said. “You have a Soros backed DA and the whole thing.”
He added: “We didn’t do anything wrong. I’m a very innocent man. And it’s okay. I’m fighting for our country. I’m fighting for our Constitution. Our whole country is being rigged right now.”
Trump said that the case was “done by the Biden administration in order to wound or hurt an opponent, a political opponent.”
“And I think it’s it’s just a disgrace. And we’ll keep fighting–we’ll fight till the end and we’ll win because our country’s gone to hell,” he said. “We don’t have the same country anymore. We have a divided mess. We’re a nation of decline, serious decline.”
Trump said “millions and millions of people pouring into our country right now from prisons and from mental institutions, terrorists. And they’re taking over our country. We have a country that’s in big trouble.”
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