While traveling in South Carolina, the former US president was filmed in a Summerville gun store. His spokesperson Steven Cheung announced that he had purchased a Glock brand semi-automatic pistol before retracting his statements.
“Are they selling well?” Donald Trump appeared in a gun store during a trip to the state of South Carolina in the United States. During this visit to the Palmettop State Armory, the former US president wandered through the firearms aisles and then chatted with other people about a pistol brandished by one of them.
“I want to buy one, I want to buy one,” declares Donald Trump, in a video published on the social network X, formerly Twitter, by his spokesperson for the 2024 presidential election Steven Cheung. “President Trump bought a Glock (a brand of pistol) in South Carolina!”, even wrote the Republican candidate’s advisor on X.
Former US President Donald Trump at a gun store in South Carolina (United States) on September 25, 2023. – Steven Cheung –
Backpedaling of his campaign spokesperson
Except that a few minutes after publishing the scene, the video and the text have since been removed from the social network, but not from the publications mentioning them. A completely voluntary deletion of content, according to several American media.
“Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung clarifies to CNN that Trump did not actually purchase a gun during his visit to the South Carolina gun store,” wrote
CNN reporter Alayna Treene on X.
Prohibited by federal law for an indicted person
Obtaining or selling a firearm while charged with a crime is a federal crime in the United States, according to the American news site The Hill who reports the story. However, this law was deemed unconstitutional by a Texas federal judge in September 2022the latter citing a Supreme Court decision striking down a gun restriction in New York State.
Trump is currently facing 91 counts – to which he has pleaded not guilty – in four indictments against him, namely the National Archives affair, the Stormy Daniels affair, the election interference in Georgia and the January 2021 Capitol storming case.
This trip by Donald Trump to South Carolina comes a few months before the Republican primaries for 2024 and while the former president remains the favorite against Ron DeSantis according to American polls.
Hugues Garnier Journalist BFMTV
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2023-09-25 22:05:46
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