Former President Donald Trump suggested he would use the powers of the FBI and the Justice Department to go after his political rivals if he wins the 2024 election.
Trump, who currently leads President Biden in six of the seven battleground states, made the indicative comment during an interview with Univision News journalist Enrique Acevedo on Thursday.
“You say they have weaponized the Department of Justice, and the FBI has been weaponized. Would you do the same if you were re-elected?” -Acevedo asked.
“They already have, but if they want to move forward with this, yes, it could certainly happen the other way around,” Trump explained. “They’ve taken the genie out of the box.”
The former commander in chief stated that prosecutors had brought charges against him “to win an election” and that he would not rule out doing the same if he “became president” again.
“When you are president, you have done a good job and you are popular, you don’t go after them so you can win an election. They have made accusations to win an election. They call it militarization,” Trump told Acevedo.
“But yes, they have done something that allows the next party, I mean, if someone, if I am president and I see someone who is doing well and he hits me very badly, I tell him to go and accuse him, mostly he would be out”. of business. They would be out. They would be out of the elections,” he added.
During the interview, Trump called the accusations leveled against him “pathetic” and said the American people understand what his rivals are trying to do to him.
Trump attends the Trump Organization’s civil fraud trial at the New York State Supreme Court in New York City on October 25, 2023. via REUTERS Trump leaves the courtroom at his fraud trial commercial civil in the Supreme Court of New York, on Wednesday, October 25, 2023, in New York.AP
“These are political accusations. These are Biden’s accusations and people understand it. “They really understand it,” added the former president.
Special prosecutor Jack Smith has filed two federal criminal cases against the 77-year-old former president for his alleged involvement in the classified documents case and the 2020 election interference case.
Trump has pleaded not guilty to 37 charges of allegedly hiding national security material at his Mar-a-Lago property after leaving office and then lying to federal authorities who sought the documents.
Trump holds a rally at Ted Hendricks Stadium at Henry Milander Park on November 8, 2023 in Hialeah, Florida.Getty Images
Outside of federal indictments, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg slapped Trump with 34 charges for alleged hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels and others during the 2016 cycle.
The 45th president has denied wrongdoing across the board.
On Friday, a federal judge in Florida denied Trump’s request to postpone his trial on charges of mishandling national security information until after the 2024 election, but said she would reconsider the case’s timeline early next year.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon ruled that “the amount of discovery in this case remains extremely voluminous, even more than initially thought.”
As the election season approaches, the Republican presidential primary front-runner leads the Democratic incumbent by between one and nine percentage points in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada, Arizona and North Carolina, regardless of whether he is third. Party candidates are included in the survey.
All of those states, except North Carolina, were narrowly picked by Biden, 80, in 2020.
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