The narrative Donald Trump is setting is that all of this is political, not legal - it's Joe Biden trying to stop him in the courts rather than face him at the ballot box.
After a rattle through his greatest hits as president, he got back to the indictment.
"The ridiculous and baseless indictment of me by the Biden administration's weaponised department of injustice will go down as among the most horrific abuses of power in the history of our country."This vicious persecution is a travesty of justice," he said to applause. At times people stood. Not all, but a good proportion.
"Think of it: Biden is trying to jail his leading political opponent that's beating him by a lot in the polls just like they do in Stalinist Russia or Communist China. No different." More applause."We are going to stand up to the corrupt political establishment, we are going to evict a totally corrupt Joe Biden from the White House…"
The narrative he is setting is that all this is political not legal. It's Biden trying to stop him in the courts rather than face him at the ballot box. Deflection and"whataboutism" play very well. And that's the crux of all this for sections of American society that have been so angered by the indictment.
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