Recently unearthed comments from former President Donald Trump have resurfaced, shedding light on his past stance regarding presidential candidates facing criminal indictment. Trump’s remarks, made during his 2016 campaign, raise eyebrows in light of his current legal challenges, as he faces multiple indictments comprising numerous criminal counts. The uncovered comments were originally reported by CNN’s K-FILE in a new article published on Monday by Andrew Kaczynski and Abby Turner.
During a rally in Reno, Nevada, held during the 2016 presidential election, Trump expressed concerns over the possibility of having a sitting president facing felony indictment and a subsequent criminal trial. He stated, “It would grind government to a halt,” highlighting the potential ramifications of such a scenario.
Trump, who is currently the frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination, has pledged to continue his campaign and assume the presidency if elected, despite facing a federal indictment consisting of 37 criminal counts related to mishandling classified documents. Additionally, he faces a separate 34-count felony indictment in New York pertaining to hush money payments made to a porn star.
During the rally, Trump also warned of the consequences of electing his opponent at the time, Hillary Clinton, who was not under indictment then. He claimed that her election would “cripple the operations of our government” due to her alleged mishandling of classified materials in her private email server. Trump further suggested that Clinton might face investigations and a potential criminal trial in the future.
K-FILE’s report highlighted that Trump made similar remarks at another rally in Concord, North Carolina, in November 2016:
“If she were to win, it would create an unprecedented Constitutional crisis that would cripple the operations of our government,” Trump said. “She is likely to be under investigation for many years, and also it will probably end up – in my opinion – in a criminal trial. I mean, you take a look. Who knows? But it certainly looks that way.”
“She has no right to be running, you know that. No right,” Trump added.
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This is stupidity
Clinton was way worse than trump
She used bleach bit
She was a Secretary of State
He has had countless “indictments” all to be proven false
that’s talking about a real crook, not when the government is weaponizing the justice system. tyw has to start becoming normal once and for all
Cnn is trying so hard !
Do they really want another 4 years of Biden ??
Trump 2024All the way!!!
Ya you heard me Ywn !
That was seven years ago. At that point in time I also respected the government enough to think someone under indictment should not be running for office. Today that is ridiculous. If there were such a policy any time the opposing party wanted to get rid of a candidate they would find some excuse to indict him.
To be clear I am NOT a Trump and won’t vote for him under any almost any circumstance. That doesn’t change the fact the Democrats have turned things like indictments, investigations and impeachments into little more than dirty political tools over the past seven year.
Are you happy now YWN? Self hating Jews you are! Shame on you for posting negative things about Trump the entire time!
Headline and article don’t match.
What’s the comparison? Hillary should have been indicted. She only got away with it because she’s a democrat and those in charge made sure she got away with it. Trump was not prosecuted he was persecuted. He was indicted after a massive witch hunt, double standards, and hypocrisy. Such a person deserves to be honored for his resilience. Trump 2024
Why we comparing a WITCH HUNT against trump to REAL CRIMINAL ACTIVITY that was done by Hillary?? Once again YWN displays their bias leftist views to the Torah world… I can just go onto CNN for this stuff!
loathing America….thank goodness I am not or never will be an American……at least this one item will be blessed …..evil country and silly comments…..Biden is not the elected leader and the dirt and drugs is one way of G-d, Hashem for sharing his disdain…shame on the world…..America is not our friend, they veto’d Israel, Russia gave the go and now scratch your silly heads and return home or at least send your money___
Why is such an article floating in the Orthodox Community.
If you love Biden, and I assume you do from this, then I bless you that your children should represent everything the democratic party represents.
Shameful article