Trump claims he had the right to interfere in the 2020 election
- Trump noted in an interview with Fox that Biden did indeed call him
- He spoke about his rising poll numbers after being charged with election meddling
Former President Donald Trump bluntly stated in an interview with Fox News that he has “every right” to interfere in the presidential election, while expressing surprise at how his poll numbers skyrocketed after he was indicted.
Trump made the statement in an interview with conservative host Mark Levin, while complaining about the new indictment from special counsel Jack Smith’s team.
“Whoever heard that you were indicted for interfering with a presidential election, when you had every right to be indicted, you get indicted and your polls go up. When people get indicted, your polls go down. But it was such nonsense,” Trump said in the interview.
He called it a “bad precedent” that he was charged in the Jan. 6 case and took responsibility for ensuring that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was not charged with crimes during his own term.
“I had to make a decision. Do I want to do this? Do I want to lock up the wife of the president of the United States and secretary of state, by the way? Do I want to put her in jail? And I’m trying to unite a country that was really broken,” Trump said.
Trump’s statement is reminiscent of his legal team’s arguments in an immunity case that his interventions with state election authorities fall within the authority of his office.
Trump also visited the aftermath of the attempt on his life during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
“Whoever heard that you were indicted for interference in a presidential election, when you have every right to be, you get indicted and your polls go up,” former President Donald Trump told Fox News interviewer and radio host Mark Levin
Levin asked him if he had received a phone call or a note from Harris.
“No,” Trump replied. “Not that I know of.”
He then said, “I did get one from Biden.” Biden had previously said he wanted to contact Trump after the assassination attempt.
Trump called his own prosecution “the worst case of election interference anyone has ever seen.”
Do I want to put the wife of a president of the United States in jail? I didn’t.
Trump also touched on the Georgia election interference case and his lawsuit over New York Stormy Daniels’ hush-money payments. “This is all coming from the Dustice Department to get their political opponent, me,” he said, echoing an allegation that the Justice Department and Attorney General Merrick Garland have denied.
Trump said he had “every right” to interfere in the 2020 election, a statement reminiscent of his legal team’s arguments in an immunity case that his interventions with state election authorities fell within the authority of his office
Trump said VP Kamala Harris didn’t call him after attempt on his life
Trump said he was “surprised” by Garland and then claimed he was considering renominating him to the Supreme Court after Senate Republicans blocked Obama’s nomination at the end of Obama’s term.
The result was that Trump ultimately received the first of three nominations to the Supreme Court.
“I’m surprised by Merrick Garland, because I thought he was — I knew he was very liberal. There were people who said, you know, because when I came in, I appointed three Supreme Court justices. And they’ve actually been very brave, in many ways. But they’re very, you know, highly regarded people. But there were people who wanted me to appoint him when I first came in. And they thought it would unite the country,” Trump said.
‘I had to make a decision, and I didn’t know if it would be accepted or – people would say, what is he doing? Why is he doing it? And then I said, I wonder if they’re doing it, and you know, if they had that option, which is conservative, you know, they wouldn’t do it.