Frustrated by his legal problems, former US President Donald Trump is holding a meeting in North Carolina on Saturday, his first major campaign event since his trial began in New York.
It is in Wilmington, in this state that Mr. Trump will fight strongly and his Democratic rival Joe Biden on November 5, that the Republican billionaire will speak.
The man who hopes to make a triumphant return to the White House is on trial in the case of hidden payments to buy the silence of former porn star, Stormy Daniels, a few days before the 2016 election that he won by the anti-Democratic wire. Hillary Clinton.
Denying a “witch hunt,” Mr. Trump repeatedly complained that the trial did not give him relief.
“I should be right now in Pennsylvania and Florida, in many other states, in North Carolina, in Georgia, campaigning,” he said wistfully this week.
On Saturday morning, several hours before the meeting, his followers in Wilmington had already begun to gather, with weapons and hats under the scorching North Carolina sun.
For Stephen Prater, a 29-year-old trucker, it’s obvious: his candidate’s lawsuit is “largely because of the left that is trying to do everything to prevent him from being president again. “
Grace Miller, 58, thinks the same. It is a “political” trial, she is convinced.
– “Very busy” –
Donald Trump attacked again on Saturday the judge of his trial in New York, historic because this is the first criminal trial of the former American president.
The headmaster must be “dismissed”, he said. “I didn’t do anything wrong!” stormed his platform, Truth Social.
“If immunity is not given to a president, every president who leaves office will be immediately identified by the opposing party,” he said.
Although a Democratic presidential candidate has not won North Carolina since Barack Obama in 2008, Joe Biden wants to believe in his chances in the state.
Because even if Donald Trump won in North Carolina twice, in 2016 and in 2020, Mr. Biden almost lost in this state to him in the last election.
The Democrat is trying to take advantage of the issues that have troubled his rival, who is locked up in court several days of the week, and is plowing the field.
He was on Tuesday in his home town of Scranton, in the state of Pennsylvania, controversial and crucial for the November election.
While he has long refrained from commenting on Donald Trump’s problems, Mr Biden fired a shot at him this week, saying the latter was “very busy right now”.
The White House assured that Joe Biden was not following the lawsuit, saying: “it is aimed at the Americans.”
This trial coincides with Joe Biden’s progress in the polls since his State of the Union address in March, with the two candidates now neck and neck.
But Donald Trump and his supporters are also hoping to capitalize on the media attention surrounding his criminal trial, counting on it offering him a ready-made platform for campaigning.
2024-04-20 17:13:21
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