In a recent interview, former President Donald Trump defended his actions surrounding the 2020 election, asserting that he had “every right” to interfere. His remarks, aired on Fox News’s “Life, Liberty and Levin,” come as he faces multiple criminal charges related to his alleged efforts to overturn the election results.

 

Trump, the current GOP presidential nominee, dismissed the charges against him as politically motivated. “It’s so crazy, that my poll numbers go up. Whoever heard you get indicted for interfering with a presidential election, where you have every right to do it, you get indicted, and your poll numbers go up. When people get indicted your poll numbers go down,” he stated. The former president was responding to a suggestion by the host, Mark Levin, that President Biden or Vice President Harris could have potentially influenced the Department of Justice’s actions regarding the federal election interference case.

 

The legal challenges Trump faces are significant. He has been charged federally in Washington, D.C., for his alleged attempts to subvert the 2020 election, and separately in Georgia, where he faces state charges including racketeering. The Georgia case revolves around an alleged scheme to overturn the state’s election results.

 

Trump described these cases as unprecedented in American history. “Well, this is the worst case of election interference that anyone’s ever seen, certainly in our country,” he said during the interview. “They do this in Third World countries, they have some of it in South America, they don’t do it a lot, believe it or not. But they do it.” He lamented the potential long-term impact of these cases, stating, “It’s such a bad precedent because people are going to think about it differently, and they’re going to think about it differently. And it’s very sad, actually.”

 

The former president further argued that the prosecutions against him are driven by political bias. He accused the Department of Justice of placing individuals in the District Attorney’s office with the intent to target him. “They put people in the DA’s office,” Trump claimed. “This was all coming out of the Department of Justice in order to get their political opponent — me.” He specifically criticized Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, alleging that she “came up with this crazy scheme and a lot of people were hurt,” referring to the co-defendants charged alongside him in Georgia.

 

These remarks follow a significant legal development last week when special counsel Jack Smith filed a superseding indictment in the federal election subversion case. This move came after the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in July, which stated that presidents have absolute immunity for actions within the core responsibilities of their office and are “at least presumptively immune” for all other official acts. Trump has argued that this ruling should grant him immunity from the charges he currently faces.

 

The Supreme Court’s decision has sent the case back to a lower court to reconsider whether Trump’s actions on January 6, 2021, merit special protection from criminal prosecution. Despite this, Smith presented the case to a second grand jury, which, like the first, concluded that the charges against Trump were warranted.

 

In response to Trump’s claims, the Harris-Walz campaign criticized his defense of election interference. “Everything Donald Trump has promised on the campaign trail – from ‘terminating’ the Constitution, to imprisoning his political opponents and promising to rule as a dictator on ‘day one’ – makes it clear that he believes he is above the law. Now, Trump is claiming he had ‘every right’ to interfere in the 2020 election. He did not,” said Sarafina Chitka, a spokesperson for the campaign. She added, “While Donald Trump is pushing his false history about the past, the American people are ready for a new way forward. They know Vice President Harris is the tough-as-nails prosecutor we need to turn the page on chaos, fear, and division, and uphold the rule of law.”

 

As the legal battles continue, Trump remains defiant, maintaining that his actions were justified and that the charges against him are part of a broader political effort to undermine his candidacy. Whether this defense will hold up in court remains to be seen, but the controversy surrounding the former president shows no signs of abating.

 

Credit: Hill 2024-09-04

 

 

 

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Trump’s mouth is an evidence rich environment.

 

Spare thought for the investigators who have to go ‘bin diving’ in the stink to collect it.

I am a very big man, I am above the law, any and all laws, can't they see that by now? As hard as they've tried they've never been able to put me away. I can do anything I want. I can walk down 5th Avenue and kill somebody and they won't be able to put me away for that, so I think they should just accept that and stop coming after me. 

Encouraging a riot and inciting violence while attempting to overthrow the results of a free and fair election is hardly within such rights. There goes Trump again, twisting things to meet his cause.

Scary delusional.

I hope this guy catches a bus, head-on.

11 hours ago, Social Media said:

he had “every right” to interfere

And Jack Smith has "every right" to use Trump's confession against him in trial. To counter Trump would have to testify on the witness stand and be subjected to cross examination. Trump can't claim the 5th Anendment to remain silent and have his testimony placed into the court record.

The man is an imbecile. Admits to his crimes constantly and these confessions will come back at him in court. The only way to defend himself, is for him to take witness stand. I wish he would❗Now that would be PRIME entertainment watching him yammer and stammer and huff & puff whilst contradicting himself every sentence. He'll be dissected like a cadaver...which he actually already resembles. 🤣

Has the brain of a peice of chewing gum. What a loser this conman ,grifting rapist is.

Wait, what? Crickets from the usual Trump supporters. Come on ... awaiting your creative thinking ...

Yup, keep moving those lips Orange "Man"!

 

In 2 more months you'll be using them for other things llike court appearances!!  😉😉😉

 

What's that Hillary?  Oh yah............

" LOCK HIM UP, LOCK HIM UP, LOCK HIM UP !! "
 

Edited September 4, 20241 yr by mushroomdave

5 hours ago, CanadaSam said:

I hope this guy catches a bus, head-on.

It would be the bigliest bus ever, pulling up for a bus stop with a bigger crowd than anyone has ever seen.

 

A bus designed and built by the CIA and FBI, a bus weaponised by the DoJ.

 

"I stopped a bus for democracy you know"

14 hours ago, mushroomdave said:

Yup, keep moving those lips Orange "Man"!

 

In 2 more months you'll be using them for other things llike court appearances!!  😉😉😉

 

What's that Hillary?  Oh yah............

" LOCK HIM UP, LOCK HIM UP, LOCK HIM UP !! "
 

Seen better looking monkeys a-holes❗🤮

On 9/5/2024 at 8:08 AM, Skeptic7 said:

Seen better looking monkeys a-holes❗🤮

More sense coming out of them too!

2 hours ago, herfiehandbag said:

More sense coming out of them too!