Former US President Donald Trump intensified his accusations that the administration of his Democratic successor Joe Biden uses justice to its advantage, comparing it to the Gestapo, the political police of Nazi Germany, US media reported on Sunday.
Trump, who aspires to return to the White House after the November elections, made these statements on Saturday during a meeting with party leaders at his Mar-a-Lago property in Florida, according to an audio recording provided. to the media by a campaign donor.
Before an audience made up of Republican leaders and donors, he accused Democrats of “running a Gestapo-style administration” and once again reviled the prosecutors investigating the criminal cases against him.
Harassed by four different criminal proceedings, including one for which he has appeared since April 15 in New York for an alleged payment to buy the silence of a former porn actress, Trump repeatedly denounces a “witch hunt” plotted by the Biden administration to eliminate him from the November presidential race.
The White House, which has denied any involvement in the legal cases, denounced Trump’s comments on Sunday.
“Instead of echoing the appalling rhetoric of fascists, lunching with neo-Nazis, and stoking debunked conspiracy theories that have cost brave police officers their lives, President Biden is uniting the American people around our shared democratic values and the law. “said spokesman Andrew Bates.
Biden’s campaign also responded in a statement Sunday, saying the Republican mogul’s tirades only confirm that “Trump’s campaign is only about him, his fury, his revenge, and his lies.”