A week after claiming his arrest is imminent, former President Donald Trump took the stage at a campaign rally in Waco, Texas, to insult the people investigating him and to claim his innocence.
Trump, who is campaigning to retake the presidency, has said he’ll soon be charged in a case over alleged concealment of a $130,000 hush money payment to Stormy Daniels, an adult film actress, during the 2016 presidential election run-up.
Trump said that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg and the Justice Department are investigating him "for something that is not a crime. Not a misdemeanor. Not an affair."
Trump’s March 25 speech drew thousands of spectators and began with a recording of "Justice for All," featuring Trump and the J6 Prison Choir, men jailed in Washington, D.C., for their actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot. In the song, the choir sings "The Star-Spangled Banner" as Trump recites the Pledge of Allegiance.
Trump described the 2024 election as "the final battle."
"You put me back in the White House, their reign will be over and America will be a free nation once again," Trump said.
Trump’s rally in Waco came amid the 30th anniversary of the siege of a walled compound there occupied by the Branch Davidians, a religious cult. The two-month siege ended April 19, 1993. Eighty-two Branch Davidians and four federal agents died.
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