Former US President Donald Trump on Saturday called his landmark federal impeachment “ridiculous” and “baseless” and an attack on his supporters.
In the first public appearance since the 37 criminal charges were unsealed, Donald Trump said it was an attack on his supporters, trying to turn a legal issue into political advantage.
Speaking at the Georgia Republican Convention, Donald Trump called his prosecution of the Justice Department an attempt to undermine his chances of returning to the White House while he campaigns for a second term.
“They launched one witch hunt after another to try to stop our movement, to thwart the will of the American people,” Donald Trump said, later adding: “At the end of the day, they are not coming for me. They are coming for you,” he said, in front of hundreds of supporters.
Donald Trump, president from 2017 to 2021, remains the favorite for the 2024 Republican nomination despite his mounting legal troubles.
“This ridiculous and unsubstantiated accusation against me, made by Joe Biden’s Justice Department, will be remembered as the worst abuse of power in the history of our country,” said the former head of state, in a speech riddled with false statements. .
The public, many with the characteristic red caps of Donald Trump, reacted with applause to the former president’s words and did not hesitate to boo when the Republican referred to the president of the United States, the Democrat Joe Biden.
Joe Biden, who has already announced that he will run for re-election in 2024, has not yet ruled on the new accusation of Donald Trump, the second after he was indicted in March of this year in New York for a tax fraud case. .
According to the accusation, 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, be moved from the White House to his mansion in Sea-a. -Lake, Florida.
Those documents were not stored securely and ended up in different corners of the Trump mansion, including a bedroom, a ballroom and a bathroom, according to photographs included in the indictment.
Under the Presidential Records Act of 1978, all of a president’s documents are the public property of the United States government and not private, so Donald Trump, leaving the White House, should have turned over classified documents to the National Archives. , who have custody.
A few months after Donald Trump left the White House, the National Archives discovered that they had not been released all of the classified documents from his presidency, and when the former president did not return them, they turned to the FBI, resulting in the disclosure. of a legal investigation.
In August 2022, the FBI finally searched the former president’s mansion to seize the boxes of classified documents still in his custody.
Despite the FBI’s 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. to see them. them.
Source: TSF
