In the 2016 election campaign, Donald Trump threatened to send his opponent Hillary Clinton to jail on at least 11 occasions. In one of them, in a televised debate, when the Democratic candidate commented that “it is great that a person with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of Justice in this country” and Trump replied “because you would be in jail” .
Trump spent four years in the White House and never did anything to put Clinton in jail. Now, with two indictments – one of them for stealing state secrets from the White House and refusing to return them when he was no longer president – it is he who is in danger of ending up in prison. But the former president has decided that he is going to take the electoral fight to the campaign rallies, outside the courts of justice. And with good results. According to a survey by the Ipsos company for the ABC television network, Trump’s popularity, although very low – 31% – is exactly the same as that of Joe Biden. Since April, when he was first indicted, Trump has seen his popularity rise six points while Biden’s has fallen.
He did it a few minutes after being accused, when, leaving the federal court in Miami, he made a stop at the Café Versailles, where he pocketed the hard-line Cuban and Venezuelan exile – in case there were any members of the those groups that were not determined to vote for Trump- that received him with open arms and singing happy birthday to him, since today he turns 77.
Just four hours later, Trump was at his country club in Bedminster, in the state of New Jersey, very close to New York, giving a rally. The former president calmly violated the orders given that same afternoon by the judge in the Aileen Cannon case, that he not speak to anyone about the prosecution if his lawyer was not present, and unleashed a long tirade against the man who defeated him in In the 2020 elections, Joe Biden, whom he will almost certainly face again in next year’s elections.
“I am going to appoint a special prosecutor to go after the most corrupt president in the history of the United States, Joe Biden, and the entire Biden crime family, if I am elected,” he declared. Actually, it would be an unnecessary decision. Joe Biden’s Attorney General (Minister of Justice), Merrick Garland, has already appointed a special prosecutor, Robert Hur, to investigate the secret documents that appeared in an office and at the home of the current head of state and government. Biden cannot be prosecuted unless he is removed from office by Congress, which requires a successful impeachment (as was the case with the two Trump suffered) followed by impeachment, something that has never happened. happened in the history of the country.
Trump, like his team, is mixing the elections with Biden’s documents -and those of his former vice president, Mike Pence, who has also found classified texts in his house- and the scandal of the private email server that Hillary Clinton served as secretary of state from 2009 to 2013. None of those cases have the severity of Trump’s problems, for a number of reasons. In Clinton’s case, there is no evidence that she shared state secrets. Nor is there one in Pence’s – who has been exonerated by the Garland Department of Justice – or Biden’s. But the biggest difference is that neither Pence nor Biden tried to obstruct justice, hid the documents, lied to their lawyers, and told them to lie about documents they had no right to have. That is the big difference between the roles of Trump and those of Biden.
The Republicans, however, have closed files around Trump who seems, thus, destined to achieve a new leap in the polls that will allow him to further screw the Republican nomination in 2024. “Dictator in the making speaks at the White House after get his political rival arrested,” the conservative television channel Fox News subtitled on Tuesday as Biden made some institutional statements.
The fact that Fox News, which has been trying to abandon Trump for months in favor of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, is heading down that path reveals that for the Republican Party the candidate in 2024 is going to be Donald Trump, regardless of what let a judicial system say that the defendant is going to try to slow down as much as possible, so that the trial comes after the elections, no matter how much the public prosecutor wants otherwise.
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