The United States' ability to justify their foreign policy interventions as part of upholding "democracy" around the world is gone after former President Donald Trump, a Republican, is being prosecuted by a Democratic Manhattan district attorney, El Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele said in a statement.
"Think what you want about former President Trump and the reasons he’s being indicted. But just imagine if this happened in any other country, where a government arrested the main opposition candidate. The United States ability to use 'democracy' as foreign policy is gone," Bukele wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.
Think what you want about former President Trump and the reasons he’s being indicted.
— Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) April 4, 2023
But just imagine if this happened in any other country, where a government arrested the main opposition candidate.
The United States ability to use “democracy” as foreign policy is gone. https://t.co/svdFxtaf4q
Trump has been charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree in connection to his alleged involvement in a $130,000 hush money payment and subsequent cover-up involving a purported affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels, among others.
Trump pleaded not guilty to the charges during his arraignment earlier in the day. A US judge during Trump’s initial appearance in court said that a trial in his case could start in January 2024, media reported.
Trump's arrest artfully constructed to prevent him from a new race for the White House - Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has decried the prosecution of Trump, arguing that US Democrats are using the legal system to block a political opponent from being elected. “This is completely anti-democratic... Why not allow the people to decide?”
The crime of which the former US president is accused, Donald Trump, and which today could cost him his arrest, is artfully "manufactured" to prevent him from running again for the White House. The president of Mexico said, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, defining what is allegedly being built around Trump as a "completely undemocratic" maneuver.
“Right now, former President Trump is declaring and they could arrest him. If that were the case, since no one was born yesterday, it would be because his name doesn't appear on the ballot paper,” Lopez Obrador said during the traditional daily press conference.
“I say this because I too have suffered from the fabrication of a crime, when they didn't want me to run. And this is completely anti-democratic,” the Mexican president said. “Why not allow the people to decide” who governs them, asks Lopez Obrador.
Trump's side in controversies related to his public demonstrations. In January 2021, Lopez Obrador had censured, for example, Twitter's decision to block Trump's profile, for references made to the ongoing protests at the Capitol.
“One thing I didn't like is the censorship. I don't like anyone being censored and deprived of their right to broadcast messages, on Twitter or on Facebook“.
“I don't agree with this,” the president underlined. “We must all limit ourselves, and guarantee freedom”, continued the president, stigmatizing the mechanism according to which “I censor you and you can no longer broadcast. We are in favor of freedoms. One of the most important things of recent times, a revolution, has been precisely the fact that freedoms have been guaranteed with social networks. People were able to communicate freely, without censorship", "circular communication was inaugurated, and there can be no steps backwards", Lopez Obrador underlined.
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