14/6/2023–|Last updated: 6/14/202305:33 AM (Mecca Time)
Former US President Donald Trump attacked current President Joe Biden, accusing him of corruption, and vowing to prosecute him, hours after the end of Trump’s first trial session in what is known as the secret documents case.
In a speech delivered yesterday evening, Tuesday, local time, to a crowd of his supporters in New Jersey, Trump said that Biden would be defined as the most corrupt president of the United States, adding, “But we will win.”
He added that it was sad to see a “corrupt president” trying to arrest his political opponent on trumped-up charges, as he put it.
He stressed that if he is elected president, he will appoint a “real public prosecutor” to pursue Biden, and will erase what he described as a deep state that wants to deprive him of his freedom, considering that “we no longer have a democracy where a political opponent is arrested and our country is in a state of dangerous decline.”
The potential Republican candidate for the upcoming US presidential elections scheduled for 2024 saw that the Ministry of Justice filing charges against him in the secret documents case is the most heinous use of power in the history of the United States, indicating that these accusations were fabricated and considered interference in the elections and an attempt to falsify and steal them, as he put it.
The former president held that he had every right to keep the documents in accordance with the Presidential Records Act, saying the president has unfettered power to make decisions about the handling of presidential documents.
Trump criticized the failure to investigate any other president, even those who kept more documents than he had, noting that Biden had kept a group of secret documents since he was vice president and senator, considering it illegal.
He also indicated that former Secretary of State and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton “broke the law and was not charged, as happened with Biden,” as he put it.
On another issue, the former US president said that he would end the war between Russia and Ukraine within 24 hours, a promise he had repeated over the past months.
Trump in court
Yesterday, the former US president appeared before a court in Miami, Florida, to answer the accusations against him related to his wrongful retention of documents related to national security when he left office, as well as lying to officials who sought to recover them.
During the session – during which the media was not allowed to report its facts – Trump’s lawyers argued on his behalf that he was acquitted of 37 counts brought against him in the official indictment, including violating the Espionage Act, obstruction of justice, and possession of classified documents.
And within the legal procedures in force, the former president was arrested with his assistant for 10 minutes, and a judicial source said that Trump would be tried as the other defendants were tried. Pointing out that the procedures include digitally taking his fingerprints and uploading a picture of him in court records, but it will not be published to the public.
After the session, the former president was allowed to leave the court without conditions, and CNN said that no travel restrictions would be imposed on him, nor would a financial guarantee be imposed on him in return for allowing him to leave the court.
But Federal Judge Eileen Cannon, who is overseeing the case, decided to prevent Trump from speaking to any potential witnesses in the case.
Experts say it could take a year or more before the classified documents case goes to trial. Trump is the first former US president to undergo a federal criminal trial after his term ends, but it is not the only trial awaiting him.
Trump wrote on his “Truth Social” platform – on his way to court – “It is one of the saddest days in the history of our country… We are a nation in decline.” Repeating his accusations that the trial is a political “pursuit” of him.
This is the second time Trump has appeared in court in recent months. Trump pleaded not guilty in New York last April to charges he paid a pornographic actress to buy her silence.
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2023-06-14 01:57:16
