Following his appearance before a New York court where he was charged with 34 counts of forging corporate documents, former US President Donald Trump on Wednesday asked Republican lawmakers in Congress to reduce funding for the Justice Department of the United States and the FBI.
“Republicans in Congress should stop funding the DOJ (Department of Justice) and the FBI until they come to their senses. Democrats have fully armed law enforcement agencies in our country and they are perversely using this abuse of power to interfere in our choicesalready under siege,” Trump said on his social network Truth Social.
The former president turned to his social media to react after a day on Tuesday in which, after declaring in New York, he had assured, having already returned to Florida, that the US “will go to hell” and that never thought “something like this would happen”, in reference to an unprecedented event in this country’s 245-year history as an independent nation.
Trump has been accused of allegedly orchestrating a legal plan to silence three people who could have hurt his campaign for president in 2016, including porn actress Stormy Daniels, Attorney Alvin Bragg said after the indictment.
The former president was strong this Wednesday in the defense he made on his social network: “Almost all legal and political analysts have said that the unjust and morally repugnant accusation that was leveled against me yesterday HAS NO –legal- -, and it is also no coincidence. there was no crime And anyway, the statute of limitations has been violated for many years.”
Trump’s proposal, if supported by his party, it would mean a change in Republican policywho have in the past supported heavy funding from both the Justice Department and the FBI, as well as criticizing proposals to reduce funding to those agencies.
Onslaught against Democrats
Trump indicated on his social network that the Democrats have armed the system of laws “as the United States has never been seen”, but that the people, however, “see what is happening and I won’t let him continue” something like that.
The remarks of Trump, who will fight for the Republican nomination in the US elections in November 2024, ended with the phrase “tremendous spirit, at this moment, in the Republican Party”.
While he was president (2017-2021), Trump has supported spending increases for the Justice Department and in fact it increased by about 4% during his tenure.
Trump, after declaring himself before the New York judge, assured that the case of the porn actress Stormy Daniels is unfounded and was made “to interfere in the 2024 elections”, for which, in his opinion, “it must be closed immediately “.
Manhattan Attorney Alvin Bragg has indicted Trump for allegedly orchestrating a legal conspiracy pay for the silence of three people who could hurt his campaign for president in 2016, including Daniels.
In the public statement at his South Florida residence, Trump introduced himself as someone they were chasing since he became president in 2017, reviewing all the investigations that have been opened with particular attention to the secret official documents found in Mar-a-Lago, his Palm Beach mansion.
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