Former President Donald Trump stood his ground regarding any 2020 Election interference by doubling down, saying he had âevery rightâ to do so.
He added any criminal fallout was politically motivated, The Hill reported.
âItâs so crazy, that my poll numbers go up. Whoever heard you get indicted for interfering with a presidential election, where you have every right to do it, you get indicted, and your poll numbers go up. When people get indicted your pull numbers go down,â he said on âLife, Liberty and Levinâ on Fox News.
Host and lawyer Mark Levin suggested in an interview broadcast late SundayPresident Joe Biden or Vice President Kamala Harriscould put an end to the federal election interference case.
The Republican presidential nominee faces federal charges in Washington, D.C., for allegedly trying to overthrow the 2020 Election results.Â
He is also charged with racketeering and other state counts in Georgia over an alleged scheme to overturn that stateâs election results.
âWell, this is the worst case of election interference that anyoneâs ever seen, certainly in our country,â Trump said. âThey do this in third world countries, they have some of it in South America, they donât do it a lot, believe it or not. But they do it.â
âAnd itâs such a bad precedent because people are going to think about it differently, and theyâre going to think about it differently. And itâs very sad, actually,â he said.
He continued with his theory that those prosecuting him are politically biased against him.
âThey put people in the DAâs office,â Trump said. âThis was all coming out of the Department of Justice in order to get their political opponent â me.â
Trump continued by stating Fulton County, Ga. District Attorney Fani Willis âcame up with this crazy scheme and a lot of people were hurt.â Trump was referring to the co-defendants charged in Georgia.
Special counsel Jack Smithfiled a superseding indictment in the federal election subversion case after the Supreme Courtâs immunity ruling in July, which ruled presidents have absolute immunity for actions that are part of the core responsibilities of the presidentâs office and are âat least presumptively immuneâ for all other official acts, per The Hill.
Since that ruling, Trump has repeatedly argued he should be immune from those charges.
The case was sent back to a lower court to decide whether Trumpâs actions on Jan. 6, 2021, are warranted. A second grand jury decided the charges were warranted against Trump.
