Tells Iowa GOP dinner prosecutions would stop if he dropped out

Speaking at the Iowa Republican Party’s Lincoln Dinner, Trump ignored the new classified-documents charges and instead insisted that investigators were only coming after him because he is winning the nomination. “If I weren’t running, I would have nobody coming after me,” he said, portraying criminal cases stemming from his own conduct as political persecution to justify reclaiming presidential power.

"If I weren't running, I would have nobody coming after me. Or if I was losing by a lot, I would have nobody coming after me." — Iowa GOP Lincoln Dinner, Des Moines, July 28, 2023