Indictment against Donald Trump: the US court is under attack

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After the historic decision to indict the former US president, Donald Trump, senior members of the Republican Party sided with him and fiercely attacked the American court. Party members’ support for the former president hints at his place within the party, despite recent scandals, and sends a strong signal to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

On the night between Thursday and Friday, the jury in Manhattan decided that the former president would be indicted for paying hush money to the porn actress Stormy Daniels. The investigation in Manhattan lasted almost five years, when it is suspected that the actress was paid about 130 thousand dollars to the porn actress. The payment was allegedly made in the last days of the 2016 presidential campaign. Meanwhile, members of the Republican Party have accused the court of “corruption” and that, over the past few years, Democrats have “taken over” the law enforcement system to persecute their political opponents. US Senator Ted Cruz He tweeted that “this is how dictatorships work”.

A protest outside the court hearing the case of Donald Trump (Photo: Vertical)

A protest outside the court hearing the case of Donald Trump (Photo: Vertical)

Most Democrats have warned against such calls on law enforcement agencies, which they say have become routine during Trump’s four years in the White House. Democratic congresswoman Zoe Lufergan, who was also a member of the committee to investigate the events of the Capitol, said that “political leaders should stand by the American system of government.”

After Trump announced on March 18 that he might be arrested, the Republican Party launched a grand jury review, claiming that the district attorney, Alvin Bragg, “abused the prosecution’s authority”, after “searching for years for any basis to file an indictment against Trump”. Bragg, for his part, sent a message to the Republican Party’s investigative team and warned them not to attack the country’s justice system. Even so, there were Republican representatives who went one step further, like Ryan Mastwho stated that he did not trust the jury.

Donald Trump announced his candidacy in the 2024 elections (Photo: Reuters)

Donald Trump announced his candidacy in the 2024 elections (Photo: Reuters)

According to what has been reported so far, it appears that Trump will face more than 30 counts related to fraud. The rest of the indictment remains confidential. According to reports in the United States, one of Trump’s lawyers even claimed that the latter is expected to turn himself in this Tuesday.

Trump reacted harshly to the indictment and said that “this is political persecution and election interference at the highest level in history. From the moment I descended the stairs in Trump Tower, and even before I was sworn in as President of the United States, the radical left Democrats carried out a witch hunt against me. The Democrats lied, cheated and behaved obsessively to try to ‘bring down the Trump’, but now they have done the unthinkable – overthrowing a completely innocent person in an act of blatant interference in the elections.”

“Never in the history of our nation has this been done,” Trump added, “Democrats have cheated countless times over decades, but using the weapon of our justice system to punish a political opponent, who happens to be the President of the United States and arguably the Republican front-runner for the presidency, has never happened. Before”.

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