Former US President Donald Trump claimed on the 4th (local time) that he was “extremely involved in an election on a scale never seen before in our country” regarding the prosecution of the so-called “silencing sexual scandal”.
Former President Trump said this at a press conference at his home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, after attending the prosecution process held at the Manhattan Criminal Court in New York on the same day.
“I never thought something like this could happen in America,” he said. “The only crime I committed was bravely defending our country from those who wanted to destroy it.”
Former President Trump is the first U.S. president ever to be prosecuted. He denied all of the 43 charges raised by the prosecution in the previous prosecution process and insisted on his innocence. Prosecution is a procedure in which the defendant is notified of the reason for the prosecution and asks whether or not to acknowledge it. Attorney Joe Takopina, a lawyer for former President Trump, said in an interview with Russian state-run Sputnik news agency on the 3rd that “former President Trump will not say anything other than the answer of not guilty at this hearing.”
Prosecutors believe that former President Trump violated election laws between August 2015 and December 2017 by repeatedly fabricating documents to cover up criminal activity that could affect the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. In particular, attention is being paid to the fact that right before the 2016 presidential election, the time when former President Trump gave money to adult film actor Stormy Daniels, who is suspected of sexual misconduct.
Source: Donga
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