Trump criticizes prosecutor, calling him ‘deranged’
The former US president has criticized the Justice Department for its recent efforts to prosecute him over alleged election interference. Read Full Article at RT.com.
The candidate for the Republican party in this year’s presidential election has condemned the legal pursuit as “a direct assault on democracy” and tagged it as a genuine instance of election interference.
Following a fresh indictment by Special Counsel Jack Smith, which charges the ex-president with illegal attempts to reverse the 2020 election results, Trump issued a statement. This latest indictment simplifies the previous year’s charges, maintaining the same core allegations without the earlier claims that Trump pressured the Justice Department to help overturn his election defeat. Still, it retains the initial four charges, including conspiracy to defraud the U.S., conspiracy against voters' rights, and charges tied to the disturbance at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, when Trump’s supporters stormed the building.
Trump, steadfast in his denial of any misdeeds, attacked the new charges in several posts on his Truth Social platform on Tuesday, branding them as “resurrection of a dead witch hunt.”
"What they are doing now is the single greatest sabotage of our Democracy in History…. This is for Third World Countries and Banana Republics, not for the USA!"
He argued that the Supreme Court’s ruling on his presidential immunity should have led to the dismissal of the entire case, criticizing Jack Smith for what he called a rehashed effort “in an act of desperation, and in order to save face.”
“This is merely an attempt to interfere with the election, and distract the American people from the catastrophes [Vice President] Kamala Harris has inflicted on our nation,” Trump argued, also alleging that the Department of Justice was breaching its own 60-day policy against influencing elections.
Trump’s attorneys have not provided a response to inquiries from the press as of now. Trump is confronting a total of four separate criminal cases.
James del Carmen for TROIB News