Trump and crime

Nueva York y Washington. The accused Donald Trump has a court date in New York next week where he is scheduled to begin the first of the four criminal trials he faces, and which he is using politically for his presidential candidacy by projecting himself as a persecuted popular hero going to the extreme to compare himself with Nelson Mandela and even Jesus Christ.

Never before in the history of the United States has a former president been accused of criminal activities, and with perhaps only one exception (the socialist Eugene Debs in 1920 who obtained more than a million votes while in prison for his opposition to the First War World Cup), a presidential candidate accused of some 88 criminal charges has campaigned. Thus, in unprecedented terrain, one of the two main presidential candidates will be forced to sit in the dock in a court during the week and only go out to campaign events on the weekends. But Trump has managed to make his trials part of his campaign.

Trump has relentlessly attacked prosecutors, the judge and his family in the criminal trial in New York in which he is accused of falsifying the origin of payments to cover up a sex scandal with a pornographic film star. He accuses, as in the other cases, that the trial is part of a “political witch hunt” by Democrats and even attacked the judge’s daughter, who works at a political consultancy that has done work for politicians.ticos Democrats including the current president. The attacks led Judge Merchan to issue a ban on Trump continuing to make personal statements of this type, which the former president and his allies denounce as an illegal attempt to suppress his freedom of expression.

Trump has continued his attacks and this past weekend challenged Judge Juan Merchan to jail him for defying his order, writing that if the “partisan” judge wants to put him in a cell “for telling… the truth, I will happily become a Nelson Mandela.” modern – it will be my great honor.” He added that “we have to save our country” from these “police operations.”ticos disguised as prosecutors and judges, and I am willing to sacrifice my freedom for that noble cause.” Shortly before, a message that someone sent him circulated indicating that it was the same Holy Week when Jesus Christ suffered the maximum consequences of the persecution of him that Trump was facing trials against him.

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