Former US Vice President Mike Pence and former US President Donald Trump. Evan Vucci/AP
Mike Pence: "Trump demanded that I choose"
Donald Trump demanded that I choose between him and the Constitution, says former Vice President Mike Pence, reports NBC News. This after the indictments against Trump were presented, where the ex-president is charged on four counts for his attempts to undermine the results of the 2020 presidential election.
- I chose the constitution and I always will, says Pence in a statement.
According to the indictments,
Pence was repeatedly pressured by Trump to help invalidate Joe Biden's victory in the presidential election, the Washington Post writes.
- Today's indictment serves as an important reminder: anyone who puts himself above the constitution should never become president of the United States.
Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Erie, Pennsylvania on July 29, 2023. Sue Ogrocki/AP
Trump compares the prosecution to Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union
The charge of, among other things, conspiracy against the United States is a political maneuver to prevent Donald Trump from being re-elected. This is what the former president's campaign claims in a written statement immediately after the indictment was filed on Tuesday evening, NBC News reports.
The statement alleges the indictment is part of a "witch hunt" and questions the timing more than two years after the alleged crimes surrounding the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021 - "in the midst of President Trump's winning campaign for the 2024 election.
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Furthermore, the "persecution" of Trump, who is called the President in the statement, is said to be reminiscent of Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union "and other authoritarian dictatorship regimes".
Trump is indicted on four counts for his attempts to undermine the results of the 2020 election.
Former US President Donald Trump. AP
"Trump's future is in prison or in the White House"
There are two alternative exits for Donald Trump after the charges of election fraud, says DN's commentator Martin Gelin. Either Trump will spend the coming years in prison or in the White House, if despite the charges he manages to win the presidential election in 2024, he writes.
According to Gelin, this is the most serious of the many charges against Trump and that the accusation of election fraud is "crystal clear".
CNN's political reporter Stephen Collinson believes that "USA vs. Donald Trump" has become one of the most consequential documents in American history.
"It is the first time that an American ex-president has been charged after trying to 'destroy the democratic system to stay in power,'" writes Collinson.
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Trump is indicted on four counts for his attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Rudy Guiliani, John Eastman, Sidney Powell and Jeffrey Clark. TT
The charges against Trump
Media: Here are Trump's five secret aides
They
are anonymized in the indictment, but the American media have managed
to figure out who five of Donald Trump's six alleged aides were, based
on the prosecutor's description of the crime.
The most famous name: Former New York City Mayor Rudy Guiliani.
"[The attorney] who was willing to spread claims and adopt strategies that he knew were false," the indictment states.
The other four are not as famous, but like Guiliani have moved in the circle around Trump.
John Eastman, Sidney Powell, Jeffrey Clark and Kenneth Chesebro are the people identified by American newspapers. They are all lawyers or government employees.
The sixth is still unclear, as the description of the crime does not provide enough clues, according to several newspapers. Most likely, the Washington Post writes, it is a Trump-affiliated lawyer with close ties to Rudy Guiliani.
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