At the White House and before boarding Marine One, the presidential helicopter, bound for Mississippi, the president was asked insistently by the press, but refused to answer.
“I have no comment on Trump“, he said, in his first direct reference to the issue after a New York grand jury voted Thursday afternoon to indict Trump in a lawsuit related to paying porn actress Stormy Daniels for silence.
Trump thus became the first former US president indicted for criminal offences. After the news was released, the former Republican president stated in a statement that It is one more sample of the “witch hunt” to which he is subjected and accused Biden’s Democratic Party of “using Justice as a weapon to punish a political opponent.”
“It’s going to turn massively against Joe Biden,” he claimed.
The Stormy Daniels case It is not the only process in which the controversial Trump76 years old, has been involved, and in fact has several open for crimes of a political, economic and sexual nature.
Trump, who in November announced his candidacy for the 2024 presidential electionit may see its political objectives seriously hampered if any of these pending cases prosper.