Mr Trump quoted Mr Putin, the dictatorial Russia president who invaded neighbouring Ukraine, criticising the criminal charges against Mr Trump, who is accused in four separate cases of falsifying business records in a hush money scheme, mishandling classified documents, and trying to overturn the 2020 election results. In the quotation, Mr Putin agreed with Mr Trump’s own attempts to portray the prosecutions as politically motivated. “It shows the rottenness of the American political system, which cannot pretend to teach others about democracy,” Mr Trump quoted Mr Putin saying in the speech. Mr Trump added: “They’re all laughing at us.” He...