Sentenced on Friday to a $355 million fine for having committed financial fraud by colossally inflating the value of his real estate empire in order to obtain more favorable financing from banks, the former President of the United States and candidate for the White House has once again launched a violent attack on American justice.
He did not hesitate to equate his problems with American justice with political persecution and compared his fate to that of Russian opponent Alexeï Navalny, who died in prison last week.
“It’s a form of Navalny.
“It’s a form of communism or fascism,” he said at a public meeting in South Carolina.
And to continue: the judge who sentenced him is “a crazy person”.
Adding: “This guy decided I was guilty before the trial started.
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Relaunched by a Fox News journalist, Donald Trump did not mention Vladimir Putin.
He simply hailed Alexei Navalny as a “very courageous man”, who “probably would have been better off staying away and speaking from outside the country”, instead of voluntarily returning to Russia.
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“This is also happening in our country,” he warned.
“We are becoming a communist country in many respects,” he declared, recalling that he had eight or nine trials under his belt, for the simple reason that he is “in politics.” .
In addition to this civil case concerning his real estate empire, which he appealed, Donald Trump is also charged in four criminal cases concerning his electoral pressure after the 2020 election, his management of confidential documents, or his payments to silence a former porn star who claims to have had an extramarital affair with him.
In total, he has 91 charges.
This exit from Donald Trump comes after the initial controversy caused by the Republican's silence in the face of the death of the Russian opponent.
While his death caused a wave of indignation in Western countries, Donald Trump, unlike Joe Biden, did not immediately react.
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His rival for the Republican nomination, Nikki Haley, had accused him of siding with Putin.
“The fact that he doesn't say anything about Navalny shows that either he sides with Putin and thinks it's okay for him to kill his political opponents, or he just doesn't think it's a business important”.
The ex-president is now using this affair to argue that there is a conspiracy against him, without ever mentioning Vladimir Putin.
On Monday, he broke his silence on his Truth Social network to push this thesis by denouncing the “CROY judges of the radical left.
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