Republican Donald Trump on Tuesday accused his Democratic rival Joe Biden of preventing him from campaigning by pushing prosecutors to indict him, despite pledges of independence provided by the US Department of Justice.
“Joe-la-Crapule took me to court in the middle of an election campaign that I’m winning hands down, but that forces me to spend time and money on unrelated things with the campaign,” assured the former president to his supporters in New Hampshire.
Donald Trump has been indicted three times in a few months in separate cases.
The septuagenarian is accused of electoral pressure during the 2020 presidential election, negligent management of confidential documents, and suspicious payments to a former porn actress.
The former president has pleaded not guilty in all of these cases, which he describes as a “witch hunt”, carried out by the Biden administration.
At a meeting in New Hampshire on Tuesday, he suggested that the many legal appointments in the coming months related to these files could prevent him from being in the field.
“I couldn’t go to Iowa today, or to New Hampshire because I would be sitting in a courtroom because of a prosecutor who charged me with bullshit,” he said. conceived.
The crowd of former servicemen present at his meeting and gathered in the small market town of Windham then shouted in support: “bullshit! bullshit!”
President Joe Biden is careful not to comment on the legal setbacks of his rival, anxious not to fuel his accusations of instrumentalization of justice.
Donald Trump also suggested that a fourth indictment could be announced “next week”. It could relate to the electoral pressure exerted on an official in Georgia, after the presidential election of 2020.
08/08/2023 23:24:40 – Windham (United States) (AFP) – © 2023 AFP
