Fresh off unveiling $399 Trump-branded gold sneakers a day after a judge leveled a nearly $355 million fraud penalty against him, former President Donald Trump wasted no time on stage in battleground Michigan lambasting, well, everything.

Ten days before the state’s GOP primary, the former president immediately unleashed an angry tirade against the country’s legal system on his return to Waterford Township on Saturday.

“That decision yesterday in New York, you may have read about it. Crooked judge. Crooked judge,” Trump said, referring to Friday’s ruling. “The case is a complete and total sham. It’s a sham case.”

That ruling hit him with the hefty payment for fraudulently inflating his financial statements for a decade while also barring him from running a business in New York for three years.

The first 15 minutes of Trump’s speech were focused on his ongoing legal perils, and he........

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