The former US president says his successor is attempting to ‘jail his leading political opponent’
Former US President Donald Trump told supporters on Saturday that his White House successor, Joe Biden, is employing “Stalinist” tactics to stamp out his political opponents ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
In his first public comments since the unsealing of a 37-count indictment on charges of mishandling classified government secrets on Friday, Trump told a crowd of Republican state party delegates and guests in Columbus, Georgia that the claims against him were “a political hit job.”
“Biden is trying to jail his leading political opponent,” a defiant Trump said during an 84-minute speech. “Just like they [did] in Stalinist Russia or in Communist China.”
Trump, who was criminally indicted in April in New York on campaign finance charges, added that “lawless partisan prosecutors” appear to issue him with a subpoena “every…