Global Courant
Former United States President Donald Trump, who is seeking a new nomination as the Republican presidential candidate, turns 77 today. But it is not another birthday, because this time he is under judicial process. In April he was accused of having made alleged illegal payments to an actress to hide his relationship with her, money that he reportedly declared as electoral expenses. However, since yesterday he faces 37 charges for the theft and withholding of hundreds of confidential or top-secret files that he took out of the White House in the last days of his term and that he kept stacked on his property, instead of having sent them to the National Archives.
The difference between the two processes is that the second is for federal crimes, including obstruction of justice. It is the first time in US history that a former president has faced prosecution. There is public evidence recorded in videos and statements by agents of various state entities that located the mentioned documents, but Trump pleaded “not guilty” and claims to be the victim of political persecution by President Joe Biden to truncate his aspiration to compete for a second management.
As usual, the tycoon took advantage of the mass bath to try to give a propaganda twist to his appearance in the Miami court to which he was summoned. He arrived two hours in advance and after hearing the accusations to which his lawyer answered “not guilty”, he was released without bail by Judge Johnatan Goodman. From there he went to a local restaurant, famous for representing Cuban dissidence, where he invited everyone to eat and launched new harangues.
Trump criticized the Democratic management of the United States and maintained that now in the nation “there is nothing but problems”, that “it is a country in decline like never before” and described it as “corrupt”. His lawyer did the same, comparing the situation with a Latin American dictatorship. Before a forum of campaign financiers, meeting last night in New Jersey, the ex-governor insisted on his claims on the grounds of an alleged judicial lynching, a clear nomination campaign strategy, in which he is measured with other Republican profiles, including the Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who, like Trump, has imposed a harsh strategy against immigrants.
The United States has strong regulations for records and handling of public information. Almost every conversation between leaders and officials at all levels, whether verbal, by telephone, or by any other means, can and should be recorded, as a countdown measure, to prevent illegal acts or endanger national security.
Because of this legal framework, former first lady and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was criticized and investigated. It was discovered that from 2009 to 2013, as Secretary of State, she used personal email addresses to sustain communications, some of them related to matters of national security. Clinton deleted many of them, chalking it up to a mistake. The investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation concluded that there had been no crime. However, in the campaign and presidential debates of the 2016 elections, Trump relentlessly criticized Clinton for said case and even announced that he would appoint a prosecutor to prosecute her for endangering the security of the United States. History repeats itself.
