[Politics] Trump denounces indictment as ‘political persecution.’

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Donald J. Trump responded to the news that he had been indicted in a statement, calling the Manhattan grand jury vote “political Persecution and Election Interference at the highest level in history.”

Mr. Trump’s statement echoed what has been an extraordinary and blistering effort to try to prevent the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, from indicting him.

Still, it was remarkable in how aggressive it was against the prosecution, and a signal of what else may come.

“The Democrats have lied, cheated and stolen in their obsession with trying to ‘Get Trump,’ but now they’ve done the unthinkable,” he wrote. “Indicting a completely innocent person.”

 

Mr. Trump framed the investigation that resulted in the indictment as the latest in the long line of criminal inquiries he has faced, none of which have resulted in charges.

The specifics of the Manhattan indictment are not yet known, but the charges are expected to center on Mr. Trump’s role in a hush-money payment to a porn star in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election. 

“You remember it just like I do: Russia, Russia, Russia; the Mueller Hoax; Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine; Impeachment Hoax 1; Impeachment Hoax 2; the illegal and unconstitutional Mar-a-Lago raid; and now this,” he said.

And he continued to paint the investigation as a larger conspiracy forwarded by his political opponents. Though he called Mr. Bragg a “disgrace” in his statement, he chose to lay the blame at the feet of his successor in the Oval Office.

“I believe this Witch-Hunt will backfire massively on Joe Biden,” he said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/30/nyregion/trump-indictment-response.html