The Republican candidate to reach the White House of the United States again, Donald Trump, compared himself to the South African anti-apartheid icon, Nelson Mandela, which sparked criticism from President Joe Biden’s campaign team.
Trump, 77, is accused in the United States in four different criminal cases, and in all of them he could face some time in prison. In one of those cases he is accused of paying a former porn star for his silence about an alleged extramarital relationship in 2006 and which the politician has always denied. That trial will begin on April 15 and Judge Juan Merchán imposed a partial silence order on Trump, who has frequently attacked that judge on social networks.
On Saturday, Trump went on a rampage on his Truth Social platform, accusing Merchán of infringing on his First Amendment rights to free speech and breaking the law. “If this partisan lackey wants to put me in jail for telling the open and obvious truth, I will gladly become a modern-day Nelson Mandela. “It will be my great honor,” Trump wrote.
Mandela spent 27 years in prison before being released and eventually taking office as president of South Africa. He died in 2013. Trump had already compared himself to Mandela at a 2023 rally and also did the same to Jesus Christ.
Biden’s campaign team – Trump’s likely rival in the November 2024 elections – responded to the former president’s statement. “Imagine being so self-absorbed to the point of comparing yourself to Jesus Christ and Nelson Mandela, all in a little over a week: with you, that’s Donald Trump,” Biden’s team said in a statement.
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