2023-09-12 09:11:13
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that his former American counterpart Donald Trump was the victim of “political persecution” because of his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election in the United States once morest Joe Biden.
“This is politically motivated persecution on the part of his competitor,” Mr. Putin said during an economic forum in Vladivostok, in the Far East of Russia, saying that this demonstrated “the perversion of the American system.
Donald Trump is being prosecuted in a multitude of cases in the United States, where he is suspected of electoral pressure during the 2020 presidential election, suspicious payments to a former porn actress or even negligent management of confidential documents following his departure of the White House.
The person concerned denounces political prosecutions.
The Russian president, on the other hand, indicated that he did not expect a change in American policy towards Russia, whoever wins the American presidential election next year.
“I don’t think there will be any fundamental changes in the direction of US foreign policy towards Russia, no matter who is elected president,” he assured, accusing the authorities of having installed “an anti-Russian spirit in American society.”
Vladimir Putin also once once more brushed off accusations of proximity between the former American president and Russia, noting that Mr. Trump had increased sanctions once morest Russia when he was president of the United States.
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