As of: February 13, 2024, 4:02 a.m
By: Lisa Mahnke
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Trump just ahead of Biden in polls.
The ex-president also sees the reason for his success in the legal processes.
He protests his innocence.
Conway – Former President Donald Trump has often described the legal proceedings against him as a Democratic strategy and a “political contract killing.”
Now, speaking at a rally during the US primary in South Carolina, he made a U-turn and highlighted a positive effect of the indictments: “It's hard to say that being indicted is a good thing, but it has the poll definitely helped.”
Trump is currently involved in four different criminal cases with a total of almost 100 charges.
In all of them, the ex-president insisted on his innocence.
Prosecutors asserted their neutrality.
Still, Trump was also confident in his old rhetoric: “If I didn’t run now, or if I was in fifth place, or if I was like Haley — 70 points behind — I wouldn’t be impeached;
I wouldn't have any problems now." According to
Newsweek,
he explained: "All this persecution is only happening because we're so far ahead in the polls." The ex-president simply argued in both directions.
Trump compares trials to special investigation into Biden: “I’m allowed to do what I do.”
Elsewhere in his speech, Trump compared his charges to special counsel investigations into US President Biden's retention of classified documents in an attempt to portray the justice system as unfair.
“In my case, I am subject to the Presidential Records Act.
I'm allowed to do what I do.
But he was not covered,” argued the ex-president.
The documents were found at Biden's residence in Wilmington and in a locked closet at the Penn Biden Center in Washington.
The comparison is a bit flawed because Trump took 15 boxes of documents to his residence in Mar-a-Lago after his inauguration.
In August 2022, this led to a raid by the FBI.
Here too, the ex-president emphasized his innocence, even though the National Archives categorized the documents as government property.
“I invited them to lunch myself,” Trump said in his speech in Conway.
Donald Trump sees his success as the reason for the legal proceedings.
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Republican Robert Hur, who was in charge of the special investigation into Biden, did not see criminal charges against the Democrat as justified.
However, Hur noted in his report that
the president's memory was "significantly impaired," according to
Newsweek .
For example, he couldn't remember the date of his son Beau's death or the date he left office as vice president.
It's a statement that could play into Trump's hands in the US elections, as the current president's age is a concern among the electorate.
The Biden family condemned the instrumentalization of their son's death.
According to Trump, Biden is a “mentally ill” – Trump grateful for legal proceedings
“Crooked Joe got off scot-free - I don't know if you'd call it scot-free;
“They said he was a mental patient,” Trump said, using Hur’s report as part of his campaign strategy.
“If I had the choice, maybe I would choose the other;
“I would go through a little trial, but that’s better than what happened,” Trump argued.
He called for cognitive testing for every person running for president.
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In current polls, Donald Trump is about one to two percentage points ahead of Joe Biden.
According to polls, if Donald Trump is convicted, the result could still change.
It is all the more exciting that Trump even assumed that the court cases in South Carolina would have a positive effect.
(lismah)