Trump, in July 4 speech, says he ‘wasn’t treated that well’ despite American right to equal justice

President Trump on Saturday said in his Fourth of July speech on the National Mall that he “wasn’t treated that well” in a reference to his legal battles and felony conviction as it relates to the American right to equal justice under the law.

The remarks came while the president talked about the Constitution, “the most righteous political document ever conceived,” he said.

“After 250 years, unlike so many others in the world, in this country we have freedom of speech, freedom of religion, equal justice under the law — although I wasn’t treated that well, but we won’t get into that,” he said. “But we won’t get into that. And the right to keep and bear arms. And for the almost six years that I was president, I guarded very, very powerfully your Second Amendment.”

Prior to his White House return last year, Trump was in the midst of several legal cases, including those regarding election interference in Georgia, 2020 election interference, the hush money trial in New York and the handling of classified documents.

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