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.

All other cases were dismissed except for the hush money case, where he was found guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels. He became the first president to become a convicted felon.

A judge had found that Trump’s business empire inflated its net worth to gain more favorable tax and insurance benefits, and ordered Trump to pay a hefty fine. The $500 million penalty was later tossed, though the judgment held.

Trump is in the process of appealing his conviction, saying in a long post on Truth Social last month that he was “an innocent man who has been horribly treated” and demanding that the conviction be dismissed and the prosecutors behind the case face criminal repercussions.

The president also made an aside that indirectly referenced his unfounded claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, suggesting he was really in his “third term” and not his second. The remark came as he talked about the U.S. armed forces and his second administration’s military actions against Venezuela and Iran.

“We rebuilt our military in my first term,” he began. “We used it a little bit in our — actually, I should say third term, but I won’t do that, because I don’t want any controversy. But we used it and we’ve had tremendous success. You look at Venezuela, you look at Iran. We wiped out ––– wiped out their military.”

Trump’s speech was the penultimate portion of the “Salute to America” event on the National Mall, where a severe thunderstorm warning resulted in an evacuation of the Great American State Fair, causing chaos in the streets of Washington, D.C. Guests were later allowed back in, and packed crowds returned as he spoke and as the fireworks show began.

His speech more resembled a State of the Union address, as it was used to promote some of his legislative priorities, including the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act. He also took a swipe at recent victories by democratic socialist candidates, conflating their politics with communism.

“It’s like a cancer, you got to cut it out, you got to cut it out fast,” he said.

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