Republican Donald Trump, a candidate in the US presidential election in November and facing judicial problems, yesterday, Saturday, compared himself to a “modern-day Mandela”, provoking sharp criticism from the camp of the Democratic President Joe Biden.
Over the past year, the former president has been charged in four criminal cases and faces prison terms in all of them.
Among other things, he is accused of orchestrating suspicious payments to a porn star – a trial that will begin on April 15.
Donald Trump has regularly railed against the judge who will preside over this trial through inflammatory posts on social media. In response, Judge Juan Merchan imposed a speech restriction on him.
Yesterday, Saturday, the billionaire Republican addressed this speech restriction in a lengthy post on his network, Truth Social, accusing the judge of “violating the law and the Constitution at the same time.”
“If this totally biased charlatan wants to put me in jail for telling the most obvious truth, I will gladly become a modern-day Nelson Mandela – that would be a great honour,” he claimed, referring to the man who ended apartheid in the 1990s. in South Africa after being imprisoned for 27 years.
A few days earlier, Donald Trump had reposted a fake sketch of the trial audience, in which he is depicted sitting…right next to Jesus Christ.
The team of Democratic President Joe Biden, who will face Trump in the presidential election, laughed at these messages.
“Imagine being so self-centered as to compare yourself to Jesus Christ and Nelson Mandela in just over a week,” spokeswoman Jasmine Harris said in a statement.
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