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Trump decries latest legal troubles as 'election interference' in town hall interview [1]
['Jackson Sinnenberg', 'The National Desk', 'Http']
Date: 2023-10
Former President Donald Trump continued to decry the possibility of as "eleciton interference" during a Fox News town hall interview Tuesday night.
"It's interference in the election, it's election interference," he said to the crowd in Iowa.
Trump also continued to press a line of rhetoric embraced by many of his supporters in Congress, like Reps. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene that the first – and now possibly second – indictments of the former commander-in-chief by Special Counsel Jack Smith of the Department of Justice and Democrats.
While Trump, who already faces 37 counts for his alleged mishandling of classified documents he retained after leaving office, called the actions by the Justice Department "facist" and compared the actions taken against him to something done in "communist" nations, it is worth repeating that the indictment(s) against Trump were voted on by a grand jury of American citizens in order to be brought against him, not at the direction of any senior political officials.
Furthermore, President Biden has routinely said he has had no contact with Attorney General Merrick Garland regarding the special counsel's investigation into the documents case or Trump's efforts to .
Trump, however, to appoint a special prosecutor to go after Biden and the so-called "Biden crime family" if the American electorate return him to the White House in 2025.
The former reality TV star also repeated well-worn talking points about Hunter Biden and Hillary Clinton in service of a theory by some Republican lawmakers and conservative pundits that the differing treatment of Trump shows the existence of in the U.S.
While the GOP frontrunner said in a Truth Social post Tuesday that he was expected to report to the grand jury within four days, former U.S. Attorney John Fishwick told The National Desk's Ahtra Elnashar Tuesday that it would be highly unusual for a target to "actually go speak to the grand jury."
Meanwhile in Miami, Judge Aileen Cannon (who was appointed to the federal bench by Trump) is expected to announce a date for the beginning of his any day now.
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