“Are they selling well?” Donald Trump appeared in a gun store during a trip to the state of South Carolina in the United States. During this visit, the former US president walked through the firearms aisles, spoke with several people and then chatted around a gun that one of them was brandishing.
“I want to buy one, I want to buy one,” declares Donald Trump in a video published on the social network X, formerly Twitter, by his spokesman for the 2024 presidential elections, Steven Cheung. “President Trump bought a Glock (a brand of pistol) in South Carolina!” even the Republican candidate’s advisor wrote in X.
Retreat from his campaign spokesperson
Only, a few minutes after publishing the scene, the video and the text that accompanied it were deleted from the social network, but not from the publications that mentioned them.
“Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung clarifies to CNN that Trump did not actually purchase a gun during his visit to the South Carolina gun store,” he wrote.
CNN reporter Alayna Treene on X.
Prohibited by federal law
Obtaining or selling a firearm while accused of a crime is a federal crime in the United States, according to the US news site The hill who tells the story. However, this law was declared unconstitutional by a federal judge in Texas in September 2022, citing an earlier New York Supreme Court decision that struck down a gun restriction in New York State.
Trump is currently facing 91 charges, to which he has pleaded not guilty, in four indictments against him, namely the National Archives affair, the Stormy Daniels affair, the election interference in Georgia and the Capitol assault case. in January 2021.
This trip by Donald Trump to South Carolina occurs a few months before the 2024 Republican primaries and while the former president remains the favorite against Ron DeSantis.
Source: BFM TV
