Former Republican President Donald Trump intensified his accusations that the administration of his Democratic successor Joe Biden used the courts to his advantage, comparing it to the Gestapo, the political police of Nazi Germany, according to reports in the American media.
Trump, who aspires to return to the White House after the November elections, made these statements on Saturday (4) during a meeting with party leaders at his property in Mar-a-Lago, Florida (southeast), according to a audio recording provided to the press by a campaign donor.
Before an audience of Republican leaders and donors, he accused Democrats of “running a Gestapo-style administration” and again attacked prosecutors investigating the criminal cases against him.
The target of four different criminal cases, including one in which he has been on trial since April 15 in New York for an alleged payment to buy the silence of a former porn star, Trump has repeatedly denounced a “witch hunt” engineered by the Biden administration to take him out of the November presidential race.
The White House, which denied any involvement in the legal cases, criticized Trump’s comments this Sunday (5).
“Instead of echoing the horrific rhetoric of fascists, lunching with neo-Nazis, and fueling discredited conspiracy theories that have cost the lives of brave police officers, President Biden is uniting the American people around our shared democratic values and the rule of law,” said the spokesman Andrew Bates.
Earlier, Biden’s campaign responded in a statement, saying the Republican mogul’s attacks only confirm that “Trump’s campaign is all about him, his anger, his revenge and his lies.”
