Donald Trump is letting it be known that nothing will stop him from running for president in 2024. Trump had a conversation with Politico Saturday and said he will continue his 2024 run for the White House even if he is federally convicted on 37-counts relating to his handling of classified documents.
“I’ll never leave,” Trump said in the interview on his private plane. “Look, if I would have left, I would have left prior to the original race in 2016. That was a rough one. In theory that was not doable.”
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As we previously reported, Trump made a video addressing his second indictment saying, “very sadly we’re a nation in decline and yet, they go after a popular president that got more votes than any sitting president in the history of our country by far. And did much better the second time in the election than the first.” He said. “They can’t stop because it’s election interference at the highest level there’s never been anything like what’s happened. I’m an innocent man, I’m an innocent person.”
Trump also went on to say how he feels like he’s being hit with these indictments because he’s beating the current president, Joe Biden in polls. “They’re coming after me because now we’re leading in the polls again by a lot, against Biden and the republicans by a lot. But we’re leading against Biden by a lot, a tremendous amount and we went up to a level that the way they figured they’ll stop us is using what’s called a warfare. Then that’s what it is. This is warfare for the law. And we can’t let it happen. Our country is going to hell and they come after Donald trump.”
As we previously reported, Former President Donald Trump was indicted in New York City in April on criminal charges arising from alleged hush money paid to adult film actress Stormy Daniels to avoid a scandal ahead of the 2016 U.S. election.
The Wall Street Journal previously reported that Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, had arranged a payment of $130,000 to Daniels in exchange for her signing a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) that prevented her from discussing the alleged affair publicly.
Daniels later filed a lawsuit seeking to invalidate the NDA, claiming that it was invalid because Trump himself had never signed it. The lawsuit also alleged that Cohen had defamed her by insinuating that she had lied about the affair.