Former US President Donald Trump (2017-2021) declared today that he does not intend to withdraw his candidacy for the 2024 presidential elections even if he is convicted of the criminal charges filed against him in New York for paying a porn actress in black, in exchange for of his silence about an extramarital affair.
“No, I would never quit. It is not mine. I would not do it, ”said the former president in an interview with the Fox News television network when asked if he would retire if he is convicted, the Sputnik agency reproduced.
The Democrats are the party of “disinformation,” Trump added, stating that they attack potential electoral contenders.
Impeachment against Trump
Trump was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury earlier this month on 34 counts related to his alleged involvement in a $130,000 hush payment and subsequent cover-up of an alleged affair with porn actress Stormy Daniels – the stage name of Stephanie Gregory Clifford. – during his 2016 presidential campaign.
The former president appeared in court and pleaded not guilty to all charges, while calling the case a “witch hunt” against him.
Trump has already announced that he will be a candidate for the 2024 presidential elections, while questioning the ability of the current president, Joe Biden, to compete against him.
Accusation against a congressman
Meanwhile, also today Manhattan prosecutor Alvin Bragg, who indicted Trump last week, today filed a lawsuit against Republican Congressman Jim Jordan in an attempt to prevent him from interfering in his case against the former president.
Bragg accuses Jordan, president of the Congressional Justice Commission, of a “blatant and unconstitutional attack without precedent” in the process open against the former president.
The lawsuit that Bragg has filed in the Court for the Southern District of New York comes after Jordan and two other Republican colleagues ordered him to appear before the US Congress to explain his investigation.
Republicans accuse Bragg of “political persecution” and have demanded that he turn over documents related to the case. Bragg’s office responded by accusing the trio of “an unprecedented investigation into an ongoing local prosecution.”
After learning of the indictment against Trump last Tuesday, Jordan issued a subpoena to a former prosecutor in Bragg’s office to testify before congressmen behind closed doors.
Bragg’s complaint, which accuses Jordan of “a clear campaign to intimidate and attack him,” seeks to prevent any deposition from former prosecutor Mark Pomerantz, who worked on the Trump investigation, before leaving the prosecution.
Trump, who is running for the nomination as the 2024 Republican presidential candidate, is the first president to sit in the dock.
He is accused of falsifying ledgers to hide the $130,000 paid to Daniels shortly before the 2016 election that brought him to the White House.
The Justice Committee that Jordan chairs announced Monday that it has called Bragg to a hearing to explain policies against “victims of violent crime” for April 17.
A Bragg spokesman dismissed the subpoena as “political maneuvering.”