Donald Trump called his accusation an “insult to the country.” In the first statements after being present in court, the former president of the United States considered that he is the subject of a fraudulent investigation.
Trump was charged with 34 counts, including covering up several personal scandals, including buying the silence of a pornographic actress with whom he had an affair. The approximately 150,000 euros were paid for with money from the 2016 campaign and recorded as an expense.
In Mar-a-Lago, Florida, Trump claimed that the only crime he had committed was defending the United States.
“I never thought something like this would happen in the United States of America. The only crime I committed was defending our country, without fear of those who want to destroy it,” he said. “It is an insult to our country,” he stressed.
The former president thus resumed his electoral campaign, arguing that the legal scandals will not prevent him from returning to the White House.
In a 20-minute speech, Trump said he was the victim of “massive election interference” and called prosecutors investigating him “radical leftists.”
Donald Trump also said that this case is a “legal pursuit” because “there is no case.”
“This is persecution, not an investigation. She has put our family through hell. It costs hundreds of millions of dollars to defend her, but our heads are still held high. Here we are, now before a failed local prosecutor, indicting a former president of the United States United, for the first time in history, and with all the jurists and analysts considering that there is no case,” he stressed.
Former US President Donald Trump appeared Tuesday in Manhattan criminal court, where he pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records, according to various media outlets.
The plea of not guilty was made during the brief session in the New York court that lasted about 40 minutes and where the prosecutors presented the accusation of the grand jury against the former president and businessman.
The accusations are linked to the case of an alleged payment of bribes to a former pornographic actress, Stormy Daniels, which would have served to buy her silence about an extramarital affair, before the 2016 presidential election campaign.
The hearing was historic, as the Republican tycoon becomes the first former US head of state to appear before a judge and on legal charges, and can proceed to trial, although the defendant does everything possible to avoid this scenario.
Trump, 76 years old and already announced candidate for the race for the White House by the Republicans, has been criticizing the process on social networks, which is dividing and shaking the United States.
The billionaire claims his innocence and claims to be the victim of a “witch hunt” orchestrated by the Democrats of President Joe Biden, whom he also accuses of having “stolen” his victory in the 2020 presidential election.
Source: TSF
