The former president of the United States was fined $355 million for committing financial fraud. “It’s a form of communism or fascism,” he said during a public meeting.
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“I have eight or nine trials under my belt because of the fact that (…) I am in politics.” Interviewed on Fox News at a public meeting in South Carolina, Donald Trump on Tuesday, February 21, likened his problems with American justice to political persecution. He even compared his fate to that of Russian opponent Alexeï Navalny, who died in prison last week.
The ex-president was fined $355 million on Friday for committing financial fraud by colossally inflating the value of his real estate empire in order to obtain more favorable financing from banks. “It’s a form of Navalny. It’s a form of communism or fascism,” he said during a public meeting in South Carolina.
The judge who sentenced him is “a weirdo”, he added. “This guy decided I was guilty before the trial started.” Relaunched by a Fox News journalist, Donald Trump did not mention Vladimir Putin. He was content to greet Alexeï Navalny as a “very courageous man”, Who “probably would have been better off staying away and talking about it from outside the country”, instead of voluntarily returning to Russia.
