Former President Donald Trump’s campaign is lashing out over his third indictment.
On Tuesday, a grand jury voted to indict the 45th president over his alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
In a lengthy statement, Trump’s campaign likened the charges to Nazi Germany.
“This is nothing more than the latest corrupt chapter in the continued pathetic attempt by the Biden Crime Family and their weaponized Department of Justice to interfere with the 2024 Presidential Election, in which Donald Trump is the undisputed frontrunner, and leading by substantial margins,” the statement read.
The campaign asked why the charges were not brought sooner before claiming, “The answer is, election interference!”
“The lawlessness of these persecutions of President Trump and his supporters is reminiscent of Nazi Germany in the 1930s, the former Soviet Union, and other authoritarian, dictatorial regimes. President Trump has always followed the law and the Constitution, with advice from many highly accomplished attorneys,” the statement added.
Trump says this is like 1930s Nazi Germany. pic.twitter.com/h7sHsb8c8z
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 1, 2023
While the statement claimed Trump was given advice from “highly accomplished attorneys” about the election, the attorney general, Vice President Mike Pence, and his own advisers told him he lost the election.
Yet he allegedly engaged in an effort to “create a fake controversy” so Pence would throw out the actual electoral votes on Jan. 6 and replace them with fake ones to alter the election results.
The statement went on:
“These un-American witch hunts will fail and President Trump will be re-elected to the White House so he can save our Country from the abuse, incompetence, and corruption that is running through the veins of our Country at levels never seen before.”
Finally, it insisted, “Three years ago we had strong borders, energy independence, no inflation, and a great economy. Today, we are a nation in decline. President Trump will not be deterred by disgraceful and unprecedented political targeting!”
You can question the timing of the indictment for sure. And you can even disagree whether the actions in the indictment are actually criminal.
Yet to compare Trump to victims of a totalitarian regime that brutally suppressed dissent — oftentimes through executions — is gross and shameful.
It is worth pointing out, the former president could have at least avoided this indictment if instead of acting like a whiner and a sore loser, he followed the tradition of every president before him and accepted the results when his advisers told him he lost.
He opened the door to face these charges through his own ego-driven, reckless actions.
Trump is of course innocent until proven guilty. Yet in this country, nobody is above the law. And if the evidence in the case proves beyond a shadow of a doubt he violated a criminal statute by trying to overturn an election he knew he lost, there is no precedent and no excuse that should shield him from the consequences of those undemocratic and craven actions.
And running for president is certainly no shield against previously trying to trample on the Constitution of the United States.