Task: Believes that the announcement will help Trump in the battle

 

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John Edgar 

 

Published: Less than 10 min ago 

 

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Donald Trump is now fighting back against the announcement that a special investigator will examine him. 

 

- I am demonstrably one of the most honest and innocent people ever in our country, says the ex-president. 

 

But his advisers believe the investigation could help him return to power. 

 

Minister of Justice Merrick Garland stated on Friday that prosecutor Jack Smith will be assigned as a special investigator. 

 

He will decide whether Donald Trump should be impeached for his involvement in the chaos surrounding the election, which escalated when a mob stormed the Capitol when the results were to be verified by Congress. 

 

Smith will also investigate allegations that Trump broke the rules and took classified documents home to Florida when he moved out of the White House. 

 

Donald Trump gave a speech at his club Mar-a-Lago in Florida late last night. Photo: Rebecca Blackwell/AP 

 

"Super radical left" 

 

The Minister of Justice believes that Jack Smith is brought in to ensure the independence of the investigation. 

 

- As things stand, when the former president recently announced that he is a candidate in the next presidential election and the current president stated that he is also a candidate, I have decided that it is in the public interest to appoint a special investigator, says Garland. 

 

Donald Trump doesn't quite see it the same way. Early on Saturday morning Swedish time, he gave a speech at his club Mar-a-Lago in Florida where he described Jack Smith as a representative of the "super radical left". 

 

On Tuesday, when Trump announced his candidacy for the presidency, he heeded the plea of ​​advisers to stay away from accusations that the election victory was stolen from him. 

 

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Attorney General Merrick Garland. Photo: Andrew Harnik/AP 

 

"Honest and innocent" 

 

In the night's speech, he called the election rigged again. 

 

Donald Trump said that the investigation will not be fair, that it is controlled by corrupt people and that over the years he has handed over "millions" of documents and that no irregularities have ever been found. 

 

- I am demonstrably one of the most honest and innocent people ever in our country, he said. 

 

 Donald Trump also showed once again that a race for the presidency between him and Joe Biden, if it ends up like that, will not be pleasant. 

 

- Joe Biden is a corrupt and incompetent political joker. "Look at all the money he's received from other countries, a lot of it has gone through his son Hunter, who is a corrupt drug addict," Trump said. 

 

The ex-president repeated several times that he is the victim in this story.

 

The entrance to Mar-a-Lago in Florida. Photo: AP TT 

 

Sees an opportunity 

 

The White House maintains that the president and his staff have nothing to do with this investigation. 

 

- The Ministry of Justice makes independent decisions about criminal investigations and we are not involved, it is stated. 

 

One of Trump's advisers tells the Washington Post that they did not receive any warning from the Department of Justice that a decision had been made on a special investigator.

 

- If they can do this to the government's main political opponent, if you can do this to the former president of the United States. Then you can do this to any American, says the adviser to the newspaper.

 

Several of the ex-president's advisers reportedly see the investigation as a political opportunity and a way to fire up Republican voters in the primary election for the nomination in the presidential election, writes the Washington Post.