Former president Donald Trump struck a defiant tone in a rambling speech delivered just one day after his historic felony conviction, saying that he’s “very honored” to be the defendant in a criminal case that he sees as a partisan political attack on himself and his supporters.

A Manhattan jury on Thursday convicted Trump on 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up a sexual encounter with porn actress Stormy Daniels, making the presumptive Republican nominee the first former U.S. president to be found guilty of a crime.

“I’m honored in a way,” he said during a press conference inside Trump Tower on Friday. “It’s not that it’s pleasant. It’s very bad for family, it’s very bad for friends and businesses. But I’m honored to be involved in it because somebody has to do it. And I might as well keep going and be the one.”

Trump claimed his reelection campaign raised a total of $39 million in about ten hours after his conviction. Earlier Friday, Trump’s campaign announced it had raised about $34.8 million from small-dollar donors following the verdict. The high amount of traffic caused the campaign’s donation page to crash.

“President Trump and our campaign are immensely grateful from this outpouring of support from patriots across our country,” said Trump campaign senior advisers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles. “President Trump is fighting to save our nation and November 5th is the day Americans will deliver the real verdict.”

During the speech, Trump attributed the gag order in the hush-money case to President Joe Biden and the Department of Justice, who he claimed were working in “total conjunction” with the court.

Pivoting back into campaign mode after weeks spent inside a Manhattan courtroom, Trump began bashing President Biden as corrupt an incompetent.

“It all comes out of the White House. The worst president in the history of our country,” Trump said of his 2024 presidential election opponent. “He’s the dumbest president we’ve ever had.”

Confirming a statement made by his defense lawyer Todd Blanche Thursday night, Trump vowed to appeal the guilty verdict in his address on Friday. The appeals process will likely begin after Trump is sentenced on July 11, four days before the Republican National Convention, and could take a year or more to wind its way through the New York state and, ultimately, federal judicial system.

Trump faces up to four years in prison, though legal experts who spoke to National Review agreed that, as a first-time, non-violent offender, he will more likely be sentenced to probation.