Former US President Donald Trump strongly criticized the four criminal charges against him on Wednesday and did not rule out the possibility of a civil war in the United States, in an interview.
“There’s a level of passion that I’ve never seen and a level of hate that I’ve never seen,” Trump said. “And that’s a bad combination,” he said, adding that he didn’t know if it would lead to mob violence.
Donald Trump spoke in a pre-recorded interview with Tucker Carlson, the well-known far-right host fired from Fox News in April, broadcast on the social network X (formerly known as Twitter) in competition with the Republican debate. that Trump missed.
“January 6 was a very interesting day,” said the former president, referring to the violent invasion of the Capitol that resulted in the deaths of four people. “It was the biggest crowd I ever spoke to,” he continued, recalling that many who participated said it was “the most beautiful day” they’ve ever had.
“I have never seen so much love,” Trump said, about the attempted insurrection that resulted in hundreds of judicial convictions and is at the root of one of the accusations that now weigh on the former president.
That was one of the burning issues discussed by Carlson and Trump, who criticized the Justice Department and the prosecutors behind the allegations.
“She’s a horrible attorney general, essentially from Atlanta, from Fulton County,” Trump characterized, referring to Fani Willis and calling the Georgia indictment an attack on her right to criticize the 2020 election results.
“They have no case against me. Even the Democrats say so,” Trump said, after calling the accusations “nonsense.”
For this reason, he considered that his position in the polls has improved since the processes began. “I’m so high in the polls because people realize he’s a fraud,” she said.
The candidate for the Republican nomination said that the Department of Justice is being used as a weapon against him and accused the current president, Joe Biden, of corruption and incompetence.
“The dishonest Biden is so bad, he is the worst president in history, he is so corrupt,” Trump said, without giving details of the alleged corruption, but calling him “the real Manchurian candidate” and considering that he is compromised by Porcelain.
Trump also criticized Biden’s physical and mental state, saying he “can’t lift a chair on the beach” and can barely “say two sentences in a row.”
In the interview broadcast five minutes before the start of the Republican debate in Milwaukee, which was opposed by eight candidates for the party’s presidential nomination, Trump again said that he won the 2020 election and that the Democrats stole his victory.
Tucker Carlson asked Trump, more than once, if he was afraid of an assassination attempt.
“They are wild animals, sick people,” Trump said, adding that most people in this country are great but hate the nation.
If he manages to return to the White House, the former president has vowed to seize control of the borders and expel “hundreds of thousands of criminals” who he says have invaded the United States, along with the mentally ill and terrorists from other countries.
He also criticized several of his former allies, including his vice president, Mike Pence, now a candidate for the nomination, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, now also a candidate, and his former attorney general. , Bill. Barr.
The conversation also went through the “crisis” of cable television, from MSNBC and CNN to Fox News, criticism of electric cars and saving water in the dry areas of California and the transfer of the Panama Canal to the control of Panama, signed in 1977 by the then president. Jimmy Carter, something that Trump considered “stupid”.
The candidate leads by far the polls for the Republican primaries, which start in January and will determine who will fight for the presidency in November 2024. The FiveThirtyEight platform gives Trump 52.1% of voting intentions, followed by Ron DeSantis with 15.2%.
Source: TSF
