Former President Donald Trump claimed he has been “under siege” after his felony conviction in New York and as he faces three criminal cases elsewhere across the country.
The Republican presidential candidate sat down for an interview with Sean Hannity on Wednesday evening on Fox News and claimed that Democrats want to arrest him even though he has committed “no crime.”
“What they’re doing to me, if it’s going to continue, we really aren’t going to have much of a country,” Trump said. “It is a weaponization of the election and, I think, the most important election in the history of our country.”
Trump was found guilty of all 34 counts of falsifying business records in the alleged hush money scheme to pay porn star Stormy Daniels not to speak about their sexual encounter. The former president has maintained his innocence and denied that an affair ever happened. Trump’s other indictments are two related to accusations of election interference in the 2020 election and for keeping classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
Hannity asked Trump if he plans to end the practice of “weaponization” by the Department of Justice, an accusation the Biden administration has staunchly denied. The DOJ also has no impact on the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, which brought the New York indictment against Trump.
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“I know you want me to say something so nice, but I don’t want to look naive. … There is tremendous criminality here,” Trump alleged.
Ever since being convicted in New York, Trump, his campaign, and his strongest supporters echoed the statement that the country is now a “banana republic,” likening the United States to a “Third World country.”
