Donald Trump is claiming the Department of Justice concocted charges against him to derail his 2024 presidential campaign.

Trump, set to be arraigned in Washington on Thursday afternoon on charges related to his attempts to reverse his 2020 election defeat, railed against President Joe Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland in a defensive Truth Social post hours before his scheduled court appearance.

Trump, referring to himself in the third person, played the victim.

Look, its not my fault that my political opponent in the Democrat Party, Crooked Joe Biden, has told his Attorney General to charge the leading (by far!) Republican Nominee & former President of the United States, me, with as many crimes as can be concocted so that he is forced to spend large amounts of time & money to defend himself, he wrote.