The Mexican President, Andres Manuel Lopez Obradorconsidered “antidemocratic” the possible arrest this Tuesday of the former US president donald trump (2017-2021) for paying hush money to porn actress Stormy Daniels.
President Trump, former President Trump, is declaring that they are going to arrest him, I think today, for an allegedly love affair. If that were the case, then everyone would know, because we are not sucking our thumbs, which is so that it does not appear on the electoral ballot, “said the Mexican ruler in his daily press conference.
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The president of Mexico made these statements as Trump has called for protests over his alleged arrest this Tuesday in a Manhattan investigation into a payment of $130,000 to Stormy Daniels allegedly in exchange for her silence about a sexual relationship during the campaign for the elections of 2016.
Trump has denounced a “witch hunt” and on Sunday accused his successor, Joe Bidenof being involved in the investigation against him by the Manhattan Prosecutor’s Office that has lasted nearly five years.
López Obrador, who previously boasted of his “very good relationship” with Trump, echoed the voices in the United States that dismissed the case as “political persecution.”
That is completely undemocratic because the people are not allowed to be the ones to decide, but all this (I say it) as a friend,” he commented at his conference, which was held in the southern state of Oaxaca.
The Mexican president has caused controversy before for his endorsement of Trump allegationsas in the 2016 US elections, when he delayed his recognition of Biden’s victory due to allegations of fraud by the Republican candidate, something that he compared to what he says he suffered in the 2006 Mexican elections.
On this occasion, López Obrador compared Trump’s situation with the lawlessness that he experienced as head of Government of the Federal District in 2004 and 2005, when the government of then-President Vicente Fox (2000-2006) asked to strip him of his political immunity for the alleged case of illegal expropriation of land.
If I say this, it is because I suffered from the fabrication of a crime because they did not want me to be a candidate (for the presidency),” said the Mexican president.
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