Former President Donald Trump recently stated that he can order his Justice Department to charge his political opponents if he wins the election, saying in a new interview he could “say go down and indict them!” via Media Ite.
It has been noted in a new interview for Univision Noticias that Enrique Acevedo questioned Trump for nearly an hour on a wide variety of topics — which naturally included the various legal problems facing the former president.
After listening to Trump complain about his 91 felony counts and his baseless claim that President Joe Biden has been directing those prosecutions, Acevedo asked Trump if he would weaponize federal law enforcement were he to win.
Trump launched into a lengthy response that wandered away from the topic just as he was describing how he could do just that:
“DONALD TRUMP: Biden is a man who has unleashed something that’s a very bad thing, because when that happens to me, it can happen to them. And, you know, he’s a very corrupt president.
ENRIQUE ACEVEDO: You say they’ve weaponized the Justice Department, they weaponized the FBI. Would you do the same if you’re reelected?
DONALD TRUMP: Well, he’s unleashed something that everybody we’ve all known about this for a hundred years. We’ve watched other countries do it and, in some cases, effective and in other cases, the country’s overthrown or it’s been totally ineffective.
But we’ve watched this for a long time, and it’s not unique, but it’s unique for the United States. Yeah. If they do this and they’ve already done it, but if they want to follow through on this, yeah, it could certainly happen in reverse. It could certainly happen in reverse.
What they’ve done is they’ve released the genie out of the box. You understand that They’ve done something that nobody thought would happen. They’ve taken a president who is very popular. I got 75 million votes, much more than that. I believe no president’s ever gotten that many votes and they’ve taken that number of people. And I think you can double it or almost you can triple it in terms of the real the feeling.
You can’t do that. You can’t go after people. You know, when you’re president and you’ve done a good job and you’re popular, you don’t go after them so you can win an election. They’ve done indictments in order to win an election. They call it weaponization, and the people aren’t going to stand for it.
But yeah, they have done something that allows the next party. I mean, if somebody if I happen to be president and I see somebody who’s doing well and beating me very badly, I say go down and indict them! Mostly what that would be, you know, they would be out of business. They’d be out they’d be out of the election.
In my case, it was there were such pathetic indictments. Like I challenged the election, I challenged the election. They everybody challenges elections if they think they’re wrong. The Democrats challenged my election in 2016. Almost everybody, they challenged it. Well, nothing happened there.
So these are very these are political indictments is a Biden indictments. And the people get it. They really get it. It’s been very impressive to watch. Polls came out today that I’m leading in, as you know, in Florida. I’m leaning Ron De Sanctimonious. I call him that because I got him elected and then he runs against me, just sanctimonious. He’s a sanctimonious guy, but he’s very unpopular now in Florida. I’ve taken him from popular to very unpopular.”
