Trump suggests he would use FBI to go after political rivals if elected in 2024 [View all]
Source: The Guardian
Trump suggests he would use FBI to go after political rivals if elected in 2024
Trump said: ‘If I happen to be president and I see somebody doing well and beating me very badly, I say go down and indict them’
Sam Levine
Fri 10 Nov 2023 13.50 GMT
Last modified on Fri 10 Nov 2023 13.53 GMT
Donald Trump has suggested he would use the FBI and justice department to go after political rivals should he return to the White House next year in a move which will further stoke fears of what a second period of office for Trump could mean.
Trump made the comments during an interview with the Spanish-language television network Univision. Host Enrique Acevedo asked him about his flood of legal problems saying: “You say they’ve weaponized the justice department, they weaponized the FBI. Would you do the same if you’re re-elected?”
“They’ve already done it, but if they want to follow through on this, yeah, it could certainly happen in reverse,” Trump replied. “They’ve released the genie out of the box.”
“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,” Trump added. “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 they would be out of business. They’d be out. They’d be out of of the election.”
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