Trump addressed reporters in the hallway outside the courtroom upon arriving Tuesday morning, calling the trial a “disgrace.”
The former president downplayed the charges against him, saying he was “paying a lawyer and he marked it down as a legal expense, I didn’t know.”
“He marked it down and said legal expense. That’s exactly what it was. And you get indicted over that?” Trump continued.
Trump added that he should be in “Pennsylvania, in Florida, in many other states,” campaigning right now instead of in court. He went on to falsely blame the charges against him on President Joe Biden, who is spending Tuesday campaigning in Pennsylvania.
“This is all coming from the White House, because the guy can’t put two sentences together. He can’t campaign, he’s using this in order to try to win an election, and it’s not working that way,” Trump said.