and high-tech investment in georgia, and the headline on the pc came out that was brian kemp and the electric car, a love story. so i like to ask you how does a romance of going these days? >> i don't have one yet but it's going great. just want to thank everybody for being here, thank "politico" and cisco, we're big fans at cisco. they got a great presence in georgia, just excited for the conversation. and look, my goal as governor ia the imo that of the capital of the united states of america, just because of the investment that we have come to our state long before the ira past, even before i governor we had an ascii battery plant might predecessor announced. i was entering the transition for the great announcement and then we did an expansion with secretary ross from the trump administration shortly thereafter that they expanded

the battery plant and we landed rivian and ten hyundai which with the two largest economic development projects we've ever done in history of the state back to back in the same year and all that happened before i pay. so this market was coming. we are a state of leaves in the market driving innovation and want to support companies and what their vision is for their customers. and i ran to strengthen enrolled georgia and create economic opportunity in all parts of our state.

mr. trump: the district attorney's office, no one has ever seen anything like that. they prosecute trump, and he wouldn't do what he wanted to do any goes out and writes a book. long before any decisions are made he writes a book about it, and the book is published, and everybody's reading this book.

and the judge said there is nothing wrong with that. if you look at bragg, bragg had a fit over that. he said this trial is now dead. that was one of the problems,j'e allowed that to happen. and you have other instances like: angelo -- colangelo. colangelo is a radical left from the doj working with the state with letitia james and the district attorney's office to run the trial against trump, and that was done by biden and his thugs also because they cannot win an election because the borders, because of energy prices, because of inflation, because of afghanistan, the worst and most embarrassing day in the history of our country. he can't win because of russ russia russia, because of all the problems, because of ukraine being attacked by russia. and he can't win because of the october 7 attack of israel, which he should have never allowed to happen.

would have never happened if i were president, ukraine would never have been attacked if i was president, and you wouldn't have inflation if i was president. we didn't have inflation. so what they do is they do election interference,c which is court cases and let's try and tie him up and let's take as much of his money as possible. i respected the appellate division for substantially reducing that ridiculous amount of money that was put up by a corrupted judge. named engoron, who are to be looked at, especially what he did with valuations. he values mar-a-lago and they say it is with 50 to 100 times that much, the experts in the business. james is like a puppetmaster of the judge. in our state, this estate is losing tremendous prestige, losing its companies, losing its people, they are fleeing, and

violent crime is flourishing. and we can't have that. no city should have that. and it is happening in other cities, but not with the lawfare . the lawfare they are doing is incredible. they could have done this with the trial we just left -- every single one of them is run by biden and his thugs, the only way they think they can get elected. and it has backfired because the people of this country understand it. it has backfired. but they are being run and they are running all of these different cases, so ridiculous. everyone of them is ridiculous. you take a look at any one of them and you say anyone of them wouldn't make any difference. this is all weaponization of doj and fbi. raided my house in violation of a thing called the fourth amendment. not allowed to do that. they rated my house in florida, mar-a-lago. no notice, no nothing. they raided it, i can't believe

it. nobody can believe it. we will see how it works out in the end. it's illegal what they are doing, it's criminal what they've been doing, and it has never been done before this country. you can't have an election in the middle of a political season -- we just had super tuesday and we had tuesday after tuesday ago,dy, and we had louisiana and we won in a record number, the highest number ever recorded. but we are in the middle of an election right now and we are in clicker joe biden, the worst president -- crooked joe biden, the worst president in the history of our country by far, was that this country go to hell. the borders, millions and millions of people coming from prisons, from mental institutions, they are terrorists, many people coming from prisons and mental institutions, think of it, and terrorists coming into this country, and this guys letting them come in by the millions. 50 million people coming already

-- people don't say it, i say it. and i'm right, too. we are going through this weaponization of our government to knock out somebody's political opponent, and based on the poles it is not working at all, the people understand it. we have a man -- i don't know how you can have a trial that's going on right in the middle of an election. not fair, not fair. it's not fair at all. he knows that, too. he is a democrat judge. they are all trying to damage trump as much as possible. it is having the reverse effect, but maybe someday it won't, i don't know. it is having the reverse effect. terrible, terrible precedent, terrible thing to do. you could've gone back for years, more than that. -- three years, more than that. all of these things could have been started so we wouldn't be quibbling about starting this week without week. this would have been over two years ago. they should have never started because there is no case -- you

read andy mccarthy's piece,n t', legal scholars all over the world, they say this d.a. case is a hoax and there is no crime. and there is no crime. sad day for this country where you have something like this. remember the words "should have started." three years ago and then you wouldn't be quibbling over -- theyre quibbling over days and hours. they wouldn't be quibbling at all. they never started. you know why they didn't start it? they didn't know i would be running and they didn't know how well i would do. if i were not running or if i were doing poorly like everyone else has done because they are all knocked out except for crooked joe biden -- if i were doing poorly this wouldn't be happening. none of these trials would have been happening. so it is a sad day in our country in many respects.

but the good days that the appellate division is fair. a lot of money still, but the judge is corrupt in my opinion, the most overturn a judge, five times in this case alone. he ruled against me before he knew anything about the case. the whole case was about damages . there were no damages. perhaps you will get him to tell you about what took place in terms of the settlement negotiation. those were into the numbers he was discussing. it's a disgrace what is happening in our country. we have to get our country back, and we are going to get our country back. november 5 i believe will be the most important day in the history of our country. we will get these people out of there and we will seal up the borders and we will, as i say, drill baby drill can get energy costs down, get rid of the ridiculous electric car mandate -- no one has ever heard of

anything so foolish and so stupid -- and we will bring crime back to law and order. we will get those words "law and order" back because our cities are a disaster. greatly respected the decision of the appellate division, and we will abide by that. we will put up cash or bond very we will put it up very quickly. we will win the case. maybe we will have todd say couple of words and i will have any questions or anything you want to ask. , wherever you may be. >> thank you, president trump. as we said in court today, we very much believe that starting this trial in april or even starting this trial at any point before the election is completely unfair to president trump, it is complete unfair to the american people, who are evaluating who they want to be the next president, and we are going to continue to fight, we

are going to continue to do everything we can to defend president trump in that courtroom. like we said we believe that we have a tremendous amount of information now in our hands to help us do that, and in any event we certainly feel the date the judge held today is not a day we should go to trial and we will continue to fight. mr. trump: and if you read the andy mccarthy article, o or mane legal -- i think almost every single one of them -- that's not even a crime. ■çwe are being tried for somethg that is not even a crime. they said most it is a misdemeanor, but there is no misdemeanor either. we have a violent people, killig people, we have drug dealers all over the place, and they go free and they can do whatever they want. but they go after trump when there is not even a crime. and did you see the number of people there? you had colangelo -- remember

this, is abide in doj guy fort wise he in the manhattan -- why is he in the manhattan da's office trying the case? that his account -- that itself is a conflict. remember what he told you, mark pomerantz -- when bragg heard about it, he went openly hostile, one of the worst things i heard. then all of a sudden, time goes by -- the great healer is time -- and all of a sudden we forget that. but that is a terrible thing. colangelo pomerantz, terrible thing, and the judge didn't want to rule on that, said what they did was fine. i don't think it is fine when they take a hillary clinton lawyer and put him into prosecuting me, and he does it on the house. he does it without fee. "i don't want any fee." our country has gone down a long way. >> simply we are gratified by

the appellate division's decision today which shows there is still the rule of law in new york. >> [indiscernible] mr. trump: i shouldn't have a trial. this is not a trial. this is not an act of criminality. >> but you are having what. mr. trump: i don't know if we are having one. we are appealing. we did nothing wrong just like i did nothing wrong in the other case. he valued mar-a-lago at a tiny fraction of what it is. he is the fraud. he created the fraud to help his narrative and her narrative, because he does whatever she wants, and the judge -- what he has done is fraudulent. mar-a-lago, you know it very well, maggie, he made mar-a-lago into $80 million. i had many offers. ok? you can take half of the living room worth more than that. it is worth anywhere from 50 to

100 times that■[ amount, and he stays with it. he is either whacked out or dishonest, one of the other, or both. probably both. but he is a disgrace to the system, and i think new york state was helped a lot today by the decision. socialists doing very well. it is going -- truth social is doing very well. i told him we can to do the new york stock exchange. we don't want to do the new york stock exchange. the people of the stock exchange are very, very upset about it. the top person is mortified, can't believe it. he said "i'm losing business because of new york because people don't want to be in new york and they don't want to go on the new york stock exchange." you can ask them about it, but how can you do that? i would love to go on the newark stock exchange. it was a big thing to go on the new york stock exchange.

but people aren't going on the new york psychic change anymore because of what is happening in new york because they don't want to be attacked like a thug like this horrible attorney general we haven't new york, the worst in the whole country. we will decide about truth social and what we do with it, but it is an example of how this is hurting new york and new york state. >> can you give us a little bit more detail about the timing, when you plan to secure the bond? how are you planning to pay the bond? mr. trump: cash. you know i do because you look at my statements. you have been examining my statement for a long time, and i have much more than that in cash. i would like to be able to use some of my cash to get elected. they don't want me to use my cash to get elected. g cash out to use it for the camp -- they don't want me taking cash out to use it for the campaign. they look at it and this judge looked at it and he is part of the whole deal that she is such a disgrace for the city. again, the most overturned judge . there's never been that we can

find a case where a judge has been overturned five times. it was four times, now it is five times. but i have a lot of cash and a great company. to think, a company -- this is t company, company that is doing very well. a very low debt on buildings, like tmost buildings i have no . most clouds i have no debt. look at my greatest assets, i have no debt. i didn't even include brand value. the brand value -- i became president because of the brand, let's say. the brand value is onef the most valuable brand values. i wouldn't swap it for any other brand in the world, trump. very conservative statements, and the way they made them look bad is by valuing mar-a-lago $18 million instead of the real value, which is at least 50 to 100 times more. think of that, this is the fraud.

they are creating a fraud and hurting the state so badly. and i can't go into the new york stock exchange -- not because i can't, because i don't want to do business in new york. and the people of the new york stock exchange, i can tell you right now, and they are very fine people, they are not happy. >>vh■! you mentioned the cash yu have. have the bonds -- now the the bond has been reduced from are you going to start putting money into your campaig? mr. trump: yep. well, first of all, it is none of your business. i have the option. if i had to -- i would have to start selling things. i don't have a cell anything. i bought the phenomenal company. i built a phenomenal company that is very low leveraged from unbelievably low leveraged, a lot of cash and everything else. why should i let a crooked judge

make a decision to get $450 million that allows me to spend very little money about -- on my campaign? i will be spending money on my campaign. i might spend a lot of money on my campaign. what i should have that option. a crooked judge shouldn't say we are going to have you post a bondof that money i could be spending on the campaign, or other things if i want to do other things. so we were gratified by the professionalism of the opinion today. i think it is a very important opinion for new york. the only thing that is going to solve that problem is when i win, because you have to win, because no company is going to be coming to new york if i don't win that case. that case is a scam, it's a sham, and it's. -- and it's a hoax. >> -- foreign government to pay -- mr. trump:■9 no, i don't do tha. i think i would be allowed to, possibly. if you borrow from a big bank,

many of the banks are outside -- as you know, the biggest banks, frankly, are outside our country. but i don't need to borrow money. i have a lot of money. i built a great company. but i don't want to have a crooked judge named engoron, and a crooked horrible, the worst -i would say without question the rest attorney general in the country can the most obnoxious and the worst attorney general in the whole country, and she did it for political reasons. back and take a look at her ads -- go back and take a look at her ads, "we will stop trump." i never heard of her. she took adds, "we will stop trump." vicious. and then she tried to do it with the f governor, and it didn't work. she went after the current governor, who is much more talented that she is. and she polled at 3%, she

polled ate race. she ran for governor on what she was doing to me. it didn't work. i think it is very important that this is a time when businesses have a choice to go to a lot of places, including other countries. they don't have to stay in our country. they could go to a lot of other states. a lot of people going to texas, florida, tennessee, north carolina, south carolina. and have a lot of competition. you shouldn't be persecuting people who have done a great job. i paid $300 million approximately in texas. $300 million. that's a lot of money. and you were going to lose those people that pay all that money and you are not going to have estate anymore. ■7-- not going to have a state anymore. >> -- do you plan to testify -- mr. trump: which hearing? >> the trial hearing. mr. trump: i don't know if you can have a trial in the middle

ection. and these are all biden trials because colangelo works for biden. can you imagine they take a guy out of doj and put them into the attorney general's office and then the manhattan d.a.'s office to go after trump? these are all biden trials. i don't know that you're going to have it. i think we are going to get some court rulings. >> will you testify -- mr. trump: i would have no problem testifying. i didn't do anything wrong. >> -- if you are convicted in that trial, given what has happened -- mr. trump: you could also make me more popular because people know it is a s■ncam. it's a biden there is no child, it is a biden -- there is no trial, is a biden trial. colangelo had the nerves too -- he has been sitting in the background the past year. today he went up front. because the writers, including you people -- been a while ago -- time, peopleorve good memori.

i do. they don't have good memories. but colangelo from the doj was put there to go after trump.ande took over the whole office. he's been running the whole thing. he's been signing the letters, doing things for a long time. nobody has seen anything like it. this is all done by the democrat party and it is all done by biden -- i don't know if it is biden because i don't biden is -- i don't think biden knows what is happening. maybe he does. he probably does. t biden and the thugs who were provided, and it is a very -- who work for biden, and it is a very bad thing, it is a dangerous thing for our country. thank you very much. former president trump in new york city this afternoon speaking after the new york supreme court justice that mr.

trump's hush money criminal trial will get underway on april 15, despite his legal team's pleas for a delay in the case. it could be the only one of his criminal trials to happen before the november general election. it is coming on the same day an appeals court ruled the former president can stave off enforcement of a $450 million bond in his civil fraud case if he comes up with $175 million within 10 days we will take you to remarks from a number of the nation's governors on top policy issues at the politico governors summit in washington, d.c. they discussed the alabama supreme court ruling on embryos, artificial intelligence, and between 24 presidential and congressional elections -- 2024 presidential and congressional elections. helpful from our workforce deployment standpoint there is every state in the country, at least states that are like ours that arewi