Former President Donald Trump yesterday responded to charges filed against him at a Republican Party convention in Georgia for the first time. He called it a hoax and a witch hunt that gets him votes. “Fans of him are calling for retaliation,” said US correspondent David Hammelburg.
Some even threaten violence, an ABC poll shows 75% of Republicans oppose the process. The lawsuit is seen as a preconceived plan to keep Trump out of the White House.
It should be noted that the package of charges is “quite serious,” Hammelburg says. “If everything is true, not only has he committed a crime for having taken possession of state secrets, but he has deliberately begun to hide them in his villa.” According to Hammelburg, this is close to high treason and could land Trump 20 years in prison.
Bad prospects
For all the support Trump can count on, things are not going well for him. Special Counsel Jack Smith “is not off the mark” and even Trump’s former Attorney General William Barr has said that if half of this allegation is true, Trump is in serious trouble.
Trump is now almost a presidential candidate and a politician, if he wins the nomination and the elections he is inviolable. Not a little: neither the Constitution nor the electoral law mention a candidate with a criminal record. Trump should be allowed to campaign from his cell, he could even be president from his cell.
“Local authorities are terrified of far-right violence”
For the moment Trump has to appear before the federal court in Miami, Hammelburg suspects that it will be a so-called preliminary hearing in which the case will be formally presented. Trump will deny any wrongdoing, his attorney will no doubt appeal to the judge to dismiss the entire case as nonsense and dismiss it. Only then are the data for a possible trial mentioned and this can take many months.’
Far-right violence
Hammelburg expects strong protests because Trump supporters are numerous in Florida. According to Hammelburg, local authorities in Miami are terrified of far-right violence and the repetition of scenes such as the Capitol. But this time first and in a courtroom in Miami.
Source: BNR
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