Donald Trump during an event in New Jersey AMR ALFIKY | Reuters
The former US president defends his power to declassify sensitive material at will and said other presidents have made similar decisions without being charged with any crime
Former President of the United States Donald Trump He promised to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the current president, Joe Bidenif he wins the presidential election in 2024. “I will appoint a real special prosecutor to go after the most corrupt president in the history of the United States of America, Joe Biden and the entire Biden crime family,” Trump said during a campaign event in New Jersey, after he was prosecuted in the court in Miami (Florida) for the case of confidential documents.
The former president had already posted a similar message on his Truth Social profile a few hours before appearing in court. In today’s speech, Trump repeated a series of insults against the US Department of Justice and special prosecutor Jack Smith, who is in charge of the documents case. The former president assured that Smith was dedicated to carrying out “political murders”, and that the decision of the Ministry of Justice to prosecute him was politically motivated, as reported by Efe.
Also defended his authority to declassify sensitive material at willand said that other leaders, such as former presidents Bill Clinton or George W. Bush, have also made similar decisions without being charged with any crime.
Trump was arraigned in federal court in Miami this Tuesday on charges related to the withholding of classified documents at his Florida mansion, a charge to which he has pleaded “not guilty.” Before heading to New Jersey, the former president stopped at a famous Cuban cafe in the Little Havana neighborhood, where he was greeted by dozens of followers and reporters who captured the moment several supporters sang the former president happy birthday. who turns 77 tomorrow, Wednesday. During his speech in New Jersey, Trump heard shouts of “happy birthday” again, saying tomorrow’s celebration would be “the best ever.”
Trump today became the first US president or former president to face federal impeachment. He was indicted on 37 counts of handling classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, his South Florida mansion, after leaving the White House.
New defamation lawsuit against writer Elizabeth Jean Carroll
On the other hand, a federal court accepted a new defamation lawsuit against Trump from the writer Elizabeth Jean Carroll, to whom he already had to pay damages of five million dollars (more than 4.5 million euros) for sexual assault and abuse.
The new lawsuit seeks to increase said damages to $10 million (about 9.2 million euros) for comments Trump made on CNN after the conviction, in which he called her “crazy” and assured the writer’s claims were “false.” ” and “made it up”, and that he “never met her”, reports Europa Press.
Carroll’s legal team considered the statements “very significant” damage to the plaintiff’s reputation and asked to include them in the case. Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan accepted the lawsuit the same day Trump was arrested to testify in the classified documents case, for which he was indicted last week.
The case dates back to 2019, after Carroll sued him for defamation after he called her “crazy” and attacked her physical appearance to deny it. However, in November 2022, a new law went into effect in the state of New York that made it possible for her to report him for sexual assault by being considered a survivor of this type of assault despite being prescribed.
Source: La Vozde Galicia
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