The former US president denounced “fierce persecution” at his first election rally since he was indicted on 37 counts for taking classified White House documents.
Former United States President Donald Trump repeated this Saturday his theories about a “Witch hunt” and denounced a “fierce pursuit” at his first electoral rally since he was indicted on 37 counts of taking classified White House documents. “This ridiculous and baseless accusation that Joe Biden’s Justice Department has launched against me will end up being remembered as the worst abuse of power in the history of our country,” said the former president, who aspires to become the republican candidate for the 2024 election, at the annual conference of the Georgia Republican Party.
“They have launched one witch hunt after another to try to stop our movement, frustrate the will of the American people”, he said, according to the Europa Press news agency. “They’re not really coming for me. They’re coming for you”warned before about 2,000 followers.
Trump, who is favored by polls for the Republican presidential nomination, He was accused of having taken dozens of boxes with classified material to his Florida mansion which include, among other topics, nuclear secrets and information on the defense military capabilities of foreign countries, according to the indictment published yesterday. “We have fake elections. We don’t have borders. We have inflation,” said in Georgia today after claiming, in a speech riddled with false claims, that he had won the 2020 election against Biden.
The Department of Justice said that when he left Washington, in January 2021, the tycoon took with him classified files from the Pentagon, the CIA, the National Security Agency and other intelligence agencies. Trump kept them without security at his Mar-a-Lago residence and club in Florida, where he regularly hosted large social events with tens of thousands of guests, according to the indictment filed in a federal court in that state.
at least twiceshowed classified documents on military operations and plans Americans to people who were not authorized to see them at their golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.
For all this, the Republican now faces 31 charges of deliberate withholding of national defense information; to a charge of conspiracy to obstruct justice; another for possession of recordsanother for hide the documentsas well as three more charges for conceal a document during a federal investigation, by intrigues and false statements. Presented by Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith, the charges against him include “unlawful withholding of national security information” and “obstruction of justice” and carry up to 20 years in prison each.
Trump has already responded to the accusation with a series of posts on his Truth Social platform and a video statement, calling Smith “unhinged” and a “Trump hater.” The ex-president considers that the accusation constitutes electoral interference orchestrated by Biden and his campaign ahead of the 2024 elections. “They persecute me because now we are again leading in the polls by a lot against Biden,” he said.
Who appears as his strongest rival within the Republican Party, the governor of the state of Florida, Ron DeSantis, who accused the Department of Justice of biased actions against the candidates of his force. “For years we have witnessed uneven application of the law based on political affiliation,” she wrote on Twitter.
Biden, who has already announced that he will run for re-election in 2024, has not yet positioned himself on the new accusation. Trump had already become the first former president of the United States to be criminally charged this year, in the case of the alleged bribery of the porn actress stormy daniels before the 2016 elections, in exchange for his silence about an alleged extramarital affair.
Source: Ambito
