President Donald Trump told The Atlantic that being prosecuted by the Biden administration’s Justice Department “made me a lot stronger.”

In a long feature story released Monday, The Atlantic’s team asked Trump whether he thought four criminal prosecutions — concerning classified documents, alleged payments to an adult film star, and two cases connected to the 2020 election — had made him stronger.

“Shockingly, yes,” Trump told the magazine. “Normally, it would knock you out. You wouldn’t even live for the next day. You know, you’d announce your resignation, and you’d go back and ‘fight for your name,’ like everybody says — you know, ‘fight for your name, go back to your family.’

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