Former US President Donald Trump on Saturday called his landmark federal indictment “ridiculous” and “baseless” and an attack on his supporters.
In the first public appearance since the unveiling of the 37 criminal charges, Donald Trump said it was an attack on his supporters in an attempt to turn a legal issue into a political advantage.
Speaking at the Georgia Republican Convention, Donald Trump called his Justice Department’s prosecution an attempt to undermine his chances of returning to the White House as he campaigns for a second term.
“They launched one witch hunt after another to try and stop our movement, to thwart the will of the American people,” said Donald Trump, later adding, “They’re not coming after me in the end. They’re coming after me.” you,” he said in front of hundreds of supporters.
Donald Trump, president from 2017 to 2021, remains the frontrunner for the 2024 GOP nomination despite his growing legal troubles.
“This ridiculous and baseless allegation against me, leveled by Joe Biden’s Justice Department, will be remembered as the worst abuse of power in the history of our country,” the former head of state said in a speech riddled with false allegations.
The audience, many wearing Donald Trump’s trademark red caps, responded with applause to the former president’s words and did not hesitate to jeer when the Republican referred to the President of the United States, Democrat Joe Biden.
Joe Biden, who has already announced his candidacy for re-election in 2024, has not yet taken a position on Donald Trump’s fresh impeachment, the second after he was indicted in New York in March this year in a tax fraud case.
According to the indictment, which became known on Friday, 37 crimes are at stake. After leaving office in 2021, Trump ordered dozens of boxes containing newspaper clippings, letters, photographs and hundreds of classified documents, including information about nuclear secrets and plans to attack other countries, to be moved from the White House to his mansion in Sea -a. – Lago, Florida.
Those documents were not put away securely and ended up in several corners of Trump’s mansion, including a bedroom, ballroom and bathroom, according to photos attached to the indictment.
Under the Presidential Records Act of 1978, all a president’s records are the public property of the U.S. government, not private, so Donald Trump should have turned over classified documents to the National Archives, which are in your custody, upon leaving the White House.
A few months after Donald Trump left the White House, the National Archives found that they hadn’t gotten all of his presidency classified documents and because the former president didn’t return them, they turned to the FBI, resulting in the opening of a judicial investigation.
In August 2022, the FBI finally conducted a search of the former president’s mansion to seize the boxes of classified documents he still had in his custody.
Despite FBI intervention, according to the indictment, Donald Trump may have endangered the security of the United States, not only because the documents were not stored securely, but also because the former president showed them to unauthorized persons for viewing. them.
Source: DN
