Trump calls classified documents special prosecutor Jack Smith a 'f**king a**hole', brands Fani Willis a 'real beauty' and likens himself to Al Capone during fiery Mar-a-Lago speech.

Donald Trump sprayed the room with expletives and he likened himself to Al Capone on Saturday as he tore into the prosecutors threatening to send him to jail.

The former president accused the Democrats of running a 'Gestapo administration', and branded special counsel Jack Smith a 'f**king a**hole' as he addressed a $40,000 a head fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago.

He teased his audience over who he would choose as his vice-presidential running mate and dished out praise to embattled House speaker Mike Johnson, ordering Republican critics to 'leave him alone'.

He mocked Fulton County DA Fani Willis as 'a real beauty', and joked that his daughter-in-law Lara would not have married his son Eric had she known that her prospective father-in-law risked jail.

'Once I got indicted, I said holy s***, I just got indicted. Me, I got indicted,' he said. 'In fact, Lara, if she knew I got indicted, she probably wouldn't have joined the family.

The former president came out all guns blazing as he returned to Mar-a-Lago for a $40,000-a-head fundraising lunch for donors and lawmakers on Saturday

He branded special counsel Jack Smith a 'f**king a**hole', and Fulton County DA Fani Willis as 'a real beauty' as he set his sights on the prosecutors who want him jailed

He returned to his Florida HQ after a week in New York at his Stormy Daniels hush money trial

Around 400 donors and lawmakers were at the lunch on Trump's Florida estate to which he returned on Friday night after the first week of his hush money trial in New York.

In his 90-minute speech he said he was surprised to have been the first ex-president criminally indicted, and blamed his 2020 defeat on Democrats who 'rigged and stole that election. And we're not going to let that happen again,' according to a tape leaked to the Washington Post.

And he likened himself to the notorious Chicago gangster Alphonse 'Al' Capone who was eventually jailed for tax evasion

The Republican's presumptive nominee faces 88 criminal charges in four separate state and federal cases including a Georgia state charge under Willis of interfering with the 2020 election results.

She was forced to dismiss her special prosecutor Nathan Wade in March after the pair were found to have had a relationship during her pursuit of the case.

Trump referred to her as 'Mrs Wade', and likened himself to the notorious Chicago gangster Al Capone who was eventually jailed for tax evasion.

'I got indicted like Alphonse and like all these people,' he said.

But he threw a protective arm around Johnson who was among the audience and faces a bid by Rep Marjorie Taylor-Greene to unseat him when Congress returns next week, breaking off from his speech to tell him 'you're doing a very good job'.

And he had sympathy for Democrat Rep Henry Cuellar, suggesting his indictment last week on charges of accepting $600,000 in bribes from an Azerbaijani oil company was 'for political reasons, because he was tough on the border'.

But he had less sympathy for his former Attorney General Bill Barr who described Trump's January 6 behavior as 'nauseating', telling his audience he would need an AG with 'courage'.

And he laid out some of the qualities he would be looking for in a vice-president insisting there was no shortage of volunteers.

'It's funny when I listen to the fake news, they all say, 'Well, you know, he's going to have a hard time getting people in his administration because he's very tough and I'm not sure he can get anybody to be vice president of the United States', he told his audience.

'I've got 50 people calling me, begging me 'I'll cut off my right arm, sir. Please, I want to be the vice president'.

'These are ambitious politicians.'

The former president has been uncharacteristically reticent on who might make the cut.

But he name checked Rep Elise Stefanik of New York whose profile has soared since she grilled Ivy League college chiefs about their handling of anti-Semitism on campus.

'Everybody said she's going to be the vice-presidential candidate,' he teased. 

He dubbed North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, pictured with wife Kathryn, as 'really impressive' as he gave the deepest insight yet into his thoughts on a VP nomination 

Rep Elise Stefanik of New York whose profile has soared since she grilled Ivy League college chiefs about their handling of anti-Semitism on campus also came in for praise

Republican senators Tim Scott and Marco Rubio have buried their differences with their former rival for the Republican presidential nomination 

As he ran through the VP possibilities Trump said that 'Hillbilly Elegy' author-turned-senator JD Vance of Ohio had 'turned out to be incredible'

But he also called former Republican rival Sen Tim Scott of South Carolina 'one of the greatest surrogates', and said that 'Hillbilly Elegy' author-turned-senator JD Vance of Ohio 'turned out to be incredible'.

He dubbed North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, another rival from the Republican primaries, 'really impressive'.

And he held the door open to his 2016 Republican rival 'Little Marco' Rubio, insisting the Florida senator is a 'talented guy'.

'Every time they say 'Is he being considered?' I say 'Absolutely'.' Trump said.

The former president has faced legal costs of around $500 million in the last two years in fines, judgements and legal bills, and Reuters reported last month that Trump's fundraising was trailing that of Joe Biden by more than $30 million.

The former president was keen to make up ground on Saturday, telling his audience: 'Anyone who makes a $1 million donation right now to the Republican Party, I will let you come up and speak.'

Two donors came to the stage after paying up with one telling the crowd: 'Donald J Trump is the person that God has chosen.'