RT – Latin America
The former US president assured that he will be arrested this Tuesday and called on his followers to protest
The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, spoke on Tuesday about the possible arrest of former US president Donald Trump, something he described as “undemocratic.”
“Former President Trump is declaring that they are going to arrest him, I think today, for a supposed love affair,” López Obrador said during his morning press conference.
For the Mexican president, if the arrest takes place, the reason for this process would be the Republican’s political ban: “We are not sucking our fingers, which is so that it does not appear on the ballot,” he said.
“If I say this it is because I suffered from the fabrication of a crime, because they did not want me to be a candidate and that is completely undemocratic, because the people are not allowed to be the ones to decide,” he commented.
What Trump assures
The Mexican president spoke about it, after Trump assured that he will be arrested this Tuesday and called on his followers to protest.
“The main Republican candidate and former president of the United States will be arrested on Tuesday of next week. Protest, take back our nation!” Trump said through his Truth Social social network last Saturday, after denouncing that “American patriots They are being arrested and held captive.”
Trump could be charged with alleged felony falsifying business records and violating campaign finance laws by arranging a $130,000 payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels through her then-attorney, Michael Cohen, to change from his silence about alleged sexual encounters with the tycoon in 2006, which the former president denies.
Should he be indicted, it would be the first time a former US president has been charged and could turn his race upside down for the 2024 presidential election.
If he is charged, the way law enforcement prosecutes the former president could be unlike any other defendant in the country’s history. Although you may be fingerprinted and have a photo taken for police records, you will not be taken in handcuffs before TV cameras or placed in a cell. He will likely remain in the custody of Secret Service agents assigned to protect him, Bloomberg reported, citing a source familiar with the matter.
