The current US administration, led by Democrat Joseph Biden, is coordinating the trials against former US President Donald Trump, who expressed this opinion on Friday on his Truth Social page.
„There is mounting evidence that the unprecedented number of lawsuits filed against me is a witch hunt engineered and coordinated by the White House and the Department of Justice. Such a shame”, the Republican wrote. “Everything is being done to illegally help corrupt Joe Biden fight his political opponent,” Trump added.
A New York court is hearing the case, which started with a publication inThe Wall Street Journal in January 2018. According to her, a month before the Republican won the 2016 presidential election, his lawyer Michael Cohen paid former porn actress Stormy Daniels $130,000 not to spread information about her intimate relationship with Trump about 10 years ago.
In 2018, Cohen was indicted on several charges, one of which was related to violations of Trump campaign finance rules, specifically payments to Daniels. At that time, the prosecutor's office did not press charges against the Republican, citing the immunity of the head of state. However, in November 2022, the Manhattan District Attorney's Office opened a new investigation. According to investigators, Trump reimbursed his lawyer for the money spent, filing it through the Trump Organization as a reimbursement for legal expenses and citing a non-existent legal advance. On April 4, 2023, a New York court indicted the Republican in the Daniels payments case. Trump became the first former president in US history to be charged with a crime.
Trump has also been implicated in several cases, including storming the Capitol, possession of classified documents and a relationship with journalist Elizabeth Jean Carroll.