The president of the United States, Joe Biden, has taken advantage of an intervention in the White House on the Middle East to pronounce his first words in public about the jury’s ruling that found Donald Trump, his rival in the presidential elections on December 5, guilty of 34 crimes. November. The trial, he has said, has reaffirmed “the American principle that no one is above the law.” He has warned that it is “dangerous and irresponsible” for Trump to say the trial has been “rigged” just because he doesn’t like the verdict.
The electoral impact of Trump’s conviction for falsifying invoices, checks and accounting records to hide payments to silence porn actress Stormy Daniels and prevent his relationship with her from ruining his 2016 presidential campaign is uncertain. . The Republican faithful have closed ranks around Trump, who has received massive donations from his supporters. The former president presents himself as a martyr, a victim of political persecution, and that is the message that Biden has tried to combat.
The president has stressed that it was a state case, not a federal one, that is, one in which federal prosecutors from the Department of Justice, which depends on him, have not intervened. With this he combats Trump’s falsehood that everything is a trial organized by the president to defeat him in the elections.
“Donald Trump has had every opportunity to defend himself. He has been tried by a jury of 12 citizens, 12 Americans, 12 people like you, like millions of Americans who serve on juries. This jury is chosen in the same way that every jury in the United States is chosen,” he continued in an appearance without questions in the State Dining Room of the White House.
“The jury heard five weeks of evidence and after careful deliberation, the jury reached a unanimous verdict. They found Donald Trump guilty of all 34 felony counts. He will now be given the opportunity to appeal that decision, just as everyone has that opportunity. “This is how the American justice system works and it is reckless, it is dangerous, it is irresponsible for someone to say that this has been rigged, just because they don’t like the verdict,” he said.
“Our justice system has endured for nearly 250 years and is literally the cornerstone of America. Our justice system, the Justice League must be respected. And we must never allow anyone to tear it down. It’s as simple as that. That’s America. That is what we are. “That is what we will always be, God willing,” he concluded before going on to talk about the Middle East.
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Previously, the Biden campaign had sent a statement in response to Trump’s intervention this Friday at Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue, in which he insisted time and again that his trial had been unfair and rigged. The former president has even spoken of the United States as a “fascist state” in a long and chaotic speech.
“America just witnessed a confused, desperate and defeated Donald Trump ramble on about his own personal grievances and lie about the American justice system, leaving anyone who watches it with one obvious conclusion: This man cannot be president of the United States. ”, began the statement from Biden’s campaign for re-election.
“Unhinged by his 2020 election loss and spiraling from his criminal convictions, Trump is consumed by his own thirst for revenge and retribution. He thinks this election is about him. But it’s not like that. “This is about the American people: reducing their costs, protecting their freedoms, defending their democracy,” he continues, concluding: “This is what Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are fighting for. “Donald Trump is wreaking havoc, attacking the rule of law, and fighting for the only thing he cares about in the world: Donald Trump.”
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