Trump Claims Charges Against Him Are an Insult to the Nation.

Former President Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony charges of filing false business records related to an alleged scheme to bury allegations about extramarital affairs ahead of the 2016 presidential election. Trump has maintained his innocence throughout the investigation and has denied the affair with porn star Stormy Daniels, as well as another alleged affair with Karen McDougal, a former Playboy model. He has also denounced the indictment as "political persecution" and "election interference." Trump used his speech to denounce the indictment and several other past and ongoing investigations into him, including his two impeachment proceedings, accusations of fraud levied against him by New York Attorney General Tish James, and the investigation into the classified documents he had stored at Mar-a-Lago.