Donald Trump is making headlines once again. The former president is now being indicted for a second time on charges of mishandling classified documents at his Florida estate.
According to CNN, Trump’s indictment included seven criminal counts. Trump also made a video and released it to the public and addressed the indictment. In the video he can be heard 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.
The scandal surrounding the alleged affair and the hush money payment made headlines and raised questions about potential campaign finance violations, as the payment was made just weeks before the election. Cohen ultimately pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations related to the payment, stating that he had acted at the direction of Trump.