2023-06-10 14:45:33
Faced with 37 counts for his alleged role in withholding secret documents, Donald Trump plunged the ANDtats united in uncharted waters : see a candidate running for the White House after an indictment, or even a conviction.
In the case of Donald Trump’s management of the White House archives, the indictment against him, made public on Friday June 9, includes 37 counts, including those of “illegal retention of information relating to national security”, “obstructing justice” and “false testimony”. AT New York, he had been charged in particular with accounting fraud.
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The Republican billionaire immediately dismissed the idea that he could throw in the towel in his campaign to regain the presidency, in the face of the charges against him, preferring instead to attribute the fault to “corrupt” political adversaries. “wanting to tamper with the elections.
Such a tactic “is unlikely to tip the scales for undecided voters, but will galvanize Trump supporters who might waver or think about backing a candidate with fewer pans,” said Matt Shoemaker, a national security expert and former operative. American intelligence.
Both in the case of the White House archives and that, in New York, of the purchase of the silence of the porn actress “Stormy Daniels”prosecutors hope that Donald Trump will be tried before American voters go to the polls in November 2024.
Nothing is less certain, however. And in the event of another electoral victory, the tempestuous billionaire could try to pardon himself, which would trigger an unprecedented constitutional crisis.
However, he would have little influence on non-federal prosecutions, and his most immediate concern remains the consequences of all these legal setbacks on his campaign for the Republican primaries.
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Its competitors “are not going to do anything”
Donald Trump’s direct competitors in the Conservative Party nomination race, his former Vice President Mike Pence and the Governor of Florida Ron DeSantisamong others, could have taken advantage of his indictment, announced Thursdayto describe him as unfit for the duties of Commander-in-Chief.
But they would have risked alienating the fervent supporters of the ex-president, who reject the accusations against him, and therefore contented themselves with crying foul alongside him.
THE opponents of the ex-president in the primary “hope that Trump will be eliminated from the race (for the nomination) by a series of indictments”, analyzes political scientist Larry Sabato, of the University of Virginia. “It’s their strategy… They’re not going to do anything,” continues Larry Sabato.
Because Donald Trump is also the subject of a federal investigation for his role in the assault on the capitolJanuary 6, 2021. Some American media are also suggesting that the ex-president could be charged, among other things, with extortion in Georgia for his alleged attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in this ANDsouthern state of the country.
Inflection point of his campaign
Among the Republicans, they were respectively 28 % et 42 % to think the same, significant figures which suggest that the campaign of Donald Trump could be at a point of inflection for the primary.
If the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, has for the moment been content with measured comments vis-à-vis the legal setbacks of his main opponent, the campaign teams of the two candidates have raised their voices in recent weeks.
And former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie waded into the primary battle this week, promising not to spare Donald Trump.
It may take someone like Christie to get his feet wet,” she said, noting that the former governor would no doubt have an interest in trying to attract former Republicans who had turned away from the party due to of Donald Trump’s presidency.
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