“More madness!” Trump says he was indicted more times than the “big” Al Capone

In selling the severity of the lengths leftists will go to against him, former President Donald Trump drew an infamous comparison when he said he outdid “Scarface.”

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Days before a deadline to file a Supreme Court response related to his bid for immunity from special counsel Jack Smith's Jan. 6 case against him, the former president took the stage in Reno , Nevada While urging attendees to rally support at the Commit to Caucus event, Trump suggested that the law brought against him went far beyond what fell against notorious gangster Al Capone.

“Anyone ever hear of the great Alphonse Capone, Al Capone, great, great mob boss, right?” the 45th president asked, building on the point he was going to make.

“He said, Scarface. He had a scar that went from here to there,” Trump said, tracing a finger from his temple to his chin, “and he didn't care at all. But he was a rough guy.”

“Now, I heard he was indicted once, a couple of people told me a few more times, but I was indicted four times,” Trump exclaimed before digging into his point about how bad Capone was. “If he had dinner with you and he didn't like the way you smiled at him at dinner, he would kill you. you would be dead By the time you leave the good restaurant, you'd be dead. He was charged once. I was charged four times.”

“Shit, I was indicted, shit,” Trump said of the 91 charges brought against him in two federal and two state indictments.

Ahead of Wednesday's deadline for the former president's legal team to issue its response to Smith's request for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court to speed up the appeal process on the claimed immunity of Trump in the face of allegations related to Jan. 6 because of his position as president, Trump's team had filed a separate motion related to an appeal from the lower court making a notoriously different comparison.

Smith had sought to expedite review of Trump's appeal to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, which lawyers for the 2024 GOP front-runner argued would require him to work “24 hours a day” “during holidays, inevitably disrupting family and travel plans.”

“It's as if the Special Counsel is growling, his Grinch fingers drumming nervously, 'I've got to find some way to keep Christmas from coming. … But how?'” they he statedquoting “How The Grinch Stole Christmas” by Dr. sweat

Trump added during his Sunday remarks: “Never forget this: Our enemies want to take my freedom away because I will never let them take your freedom away. That's what I do. They want to silence me because I will never silence them. And in the end, they don't come after me. They come after you. And I just stayed in their way. I'm in their way.”

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A native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College, where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and seeker of truth, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and dog, and when he's not researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel ·the.

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