Donald Trump declared himself on Wednesday January 12 opposed to any obligation of vaccine against Covid-19, while recommending to be vaccinated, during a rare interview with American public radio which he ended abruptly by repeating his accusations unfounded on a "
rigged
" election.
"
The vaccines, I recommend taking them, but I think it must be an individual choice
," the former Republican president told national radio NPR, an unusual choice for the septuagenarian accustomed to very media. preservatives.
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Donald Trump, who remains a central figure for the American right, strongly criticized the idea of compulsory vaccination, an option defended by the administration of his Democratic successor Joe Biden.
"
The (vaccine) obligations are really bad for our country
", he assured on the phone, "
it strongly penalizes our economy
".
Asked about the 2020 presidential election, lost by himself and his camp, Donald Trump repeated, without proof, that it was a “
rigged election
”.
Faced with NPR journalist Steve Inskeep, who opposed the evidence of an election without massive fraud, to the results certified by his own Republican allies, as for example in the state of Arizona, the former president reacted thus: "
The number of ballots does not mean anything!
(The question) is who signed the ballots, where the ballots came from
”.
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The billionaire deemed it “
advantageous
” to keep talking about the 2020 election, so that voters worry about possible fraud in the midterm elections, next fall, and in 2024. “
The only way that it does not repeat itself, it is to solve this problem of the rigged presidential election of 2020.
Pressed by the journalist, Donald Trump continued his criticisms, but ended the interview abruptly, hanging up on him in the face of a "
Thank you very much Steve, thank you
".
Last Thursday, during a speech commemorating the first anniversary of the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, Democrat Joe Biden attacked “
the losing former president
”, accusing him of having “
attempted prevent a peaceful transfer of power
”.
