Trump Defiantly Claims He Had ‘Every Right’ to Interfere in the 2020 Election!

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In an appearance on Fox News Sunday night former president Donald Trump argued that he had “every right’ to interfere” in the 2020 election while repeating his claims that the criminal indictments against him, relating to the election, are politically motivated.

It’s so crazy, that my poll numbers go up. Whoever heard you get indicted for interfering with a presidential election, where you have every right to do it, you get indicted, and your poll numbers go up. When people get indicted your poll numbers go down,’ Trump said on the Fox News program “Life, Liberty, and Levin.”

Trump was responding to host Mark Levin’s suggestion that President Biden and Vice President Harris could tell the attorney general to “knock it off” referencing the federal election interference cases. The GOP presidential nominee faces numerous federal charges relating to his alleged actions to subvert the 2020 presidential election results.

He faces charges in Washington brought by special counsel Jack Smith, as well as racketeering charges in Georgia in relation to an alleged plan to overturn the state’s election results. Levin, before Trump made that comment, told the former president how the superseding indictment filed by Smith on Aug. 27 would breathe new life into the case after the Supreme Court’s July ruling on presidential immunity.

Smith filed new indictments against Trump, narrowing the charges against him to conspiracy to defraud the US, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, attempting to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights.

This in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision this past July giving presidents broad immunity from criminal prosecution for “official acts.” According to court filings, these charges will look to “reflect the Government’s efforts to respect and implement the Supreme Court’s holdings and remand instructions.”

The Supreme Court decision required the original indictments filed by Smith to be sent back to the lower courts to determine if Trump’s acts on January 6, 2021, could be considered “official acts” and therefore protected from criminal prosecution under the high court’s ruling. The superseding indictments were put in front of a second grand jury, which had not previously heard the case.

Like the first, the second grand jury concluded charges were appropriate against the former president. Trump in the interview on Sunday argued that the people prosecuting these cases against him are politically motivated and biased against him. “They put people in the DA’s office,” Trump said. “ This was all coming out of the Department of Justice in order to get their political opponent—me.”

Trump also referenced the Georgia case saying Fulton County, Ga. District Attorney Fani Willis “came up with this crazy scheme and a lot of people were hurt,” referring to his co-defendants including his former attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, as well as his former chief of staff Mark Meadows.

The Harris campaign responded to the interview saying “Everything Donald Trump has promised on the campaign trail – from terminating the Constitution, to imprisoning his political opponents and promising to rule as dictator on ‘day one’ – makes it clear that he believes he is above the law. Now Trump is claiming he had ‘every right’ to interfere in the 2020 election. He did not,” Harris-Walz campaign spokesperson Sarafina Chitka said in a statement on Monday.

“While Donald Trump is pushing his false history about the past, the American people are ready for a new way forward,” she added. “They know Vice President Harris is the tough-as-nails prosecutor we need to turn the page on chaos, fear and division, and uphold the rule of law.”

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