“Our justice system has become lawless,' Trump said as he appeared before supporters at Mar-a-Lago. 'They’re using it now, in addition to everything else, to win elections.”
said after he was charged with 34 felonies by the Manhattan District Attorney last week were “not guilty.” But, politically, the most significant may be “election interference.”
Alleging an election is being stolen from him is a routine Trump tactic, despite no evidence to back up his assertions. When competing for the GOP presidential nomination in 2016, Trumpwas due to fraud. When he won the White House that November but lost the popular vote, Trump claimed the only reason for falling short in the latter category was because undocumented immigrants voted.
What's notable in Trump's case, however, is that his own party is echoing the stolen election claims ahead of the next campaign. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy last month said he was directing his party's committee chairs to “investigate if federal funds are being used to subvert our democracy by interfering in elections with politically motivated prosecutions.”charges in New York
Trump is also enmeshed in a federal special counsel investigation of his handling of classified documents found at his Florida estate., when asked at a news conference on Tuesday whether the timing of the case was political, responded by saying: “I bring cases when they’re ready."
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