Former Republican President Donald Trump has intensified his accusations of instrumentalization of justice by the administration of his Democratic successor Joe Biden by comparing it to the Gestapo, the political police of Nazi Germany, American media reported on Sunday.
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Comments denounced by the White House and Joe Biden’s campaign team.
“Instead of echoing the appalling rhetoric of fascists, lunching with neo-Nazis, and fueling debunked conspiracy theories that have cost the lives of brave police officers, President Biden is rallying the American people around of our shared democratic values and the rule of law,” said Andrew Bates, White House spokesman.
Joe Biden’s campaign team had previously castigated, in a press release, the Republican candidate’s tirades: “Trump’s campaign only revolves around him, his fury, his revenge and his lies.”
In front of an audience of Republican executives and donors, their candidate for the November election on Saturday accused the Democrats of “running a Gestapo administration”, and once again vilified the prosecutors who are investigating the cases against him, according to the quoted remarks. by the media.
Statements made during a 90-minute speech at his Mar-a-Lago property in Florida, according to an audio recording provided to American media by a campaign donor.
Targeted by four separate criminal proceedings, including one for which he has been appearing since April 15 in New York, Donald Trump repeatedly denounces a “witch hunt” hatched by the Democratic administration to eliminate him from the presidential race .
The White House has denied any involvement in the ongoing legal proceedings.
