Are you running for governor? I think so, Karrin. Because if you do, you’re gonna have my support, OK? You’re going to have my support.

Because Donald is a tax cheat.

He called. He wanted to know if he could come over and say hello, because he was a fan.

It's great to be with Marjorie, a very special person. She's out there fighting hard.

I don't mind releasing. I'm under a routine audit, and it'll be released. I've been ordered that I think for 15 straight years. When the audit is done, I will release them. As soon as my routine audit is finished, I'll release my returns…

As you know, just about the top person, one of the top people, in the Justice Department, Lisa Monaco, a major Trump-hater, major, I mean beyond belief, is in charge of the case.

Appalling, and Horrendous, and a Horrendous abuse of power.

Before we begin, I want to address the appalling announcement, today, by the egregiously corrupt Biden administration, and their weaponized Department of Justice.

This horrendous abuse of power is the latest in a long series of witch-hunts that started a long time ago.

I thought that put the final nail in the coffin.

I have been proven innocent for six years on everything from fake impeachments to Mueller who found no collusion. And now I have to do it more. It is not acceptable. It is so unfair, the worst politicization of Justice. The Republican…

I hope the Republicans have the courage to fight this.

We want all votes counted by Election Night.

They should give me immediately back everything that they've taken from because it's mine. It's mine.

I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more that we have.

Gas prices have reached the highest levels in history, and expect them to go much higher now that the Strategic National Reserves, which I filled up, have been virtually drained in order to keep gasoline prices lower just prior to the…

For the first time in memory, China was reeling and back on its heels.

Joe Biden has intentionally surrendered our energy independence.

We turned the page on decades of globalist sellouts and one-sided trade deals.

Exactly one week ago our citizens voted in the important midterm elections, and despite a ridiculously long and unnecessary period of waiting, far longer in fact than any third world country, just a short time ago the Republicans won back…

This will not be my campaign. This will be our campaign, all together.

In order to make America great and glorious again, I am tonight announcing my candidacy for president of the United States.

For millions of Americans the past two years under Joe Biden have been a time of pain, hardship, anxiety and despair.

Businesses were pouring back because of our historic tax and regulation cuts, the biggest in both categories in history.

This is a party that has become much bigger, much stronger, much more powerful, can do much more good for our country.