The lawyers of the former president of the United States Donald Trump have criticized this Tuesday the 34 crimes that they impute to their client, which they have described as repetitive, and they insisted again that the process against the businessman is “totally political”, it is a “political persecution”. Trump’s defense has spoken despite the fact that Judge Juan Manuel Merchán has asked them to refrain from speaking to the press. He has made it clear that he wants to avoid inciting “violence or civil unrest.”

“There is nothing (in the indictment). No federal crime is alleged, nor was (crime) committed against any state law. It does not allege what the falsified statement is. It is really disappointing, it is sad and we are going to fight him, his lawyer Todd Blanche said after concluding the hearing in which Trump pleaded not guilty to all charges.

Blanche insisted to reporters outside the New York courthouse in Manhattan that she did not expect something like this to happen in the United States. “No one expects this to happen to someone who was president of the United States,” said Trump’s lawyer, who insisted that he has not found “any surprise” in the statement of accusations.

Trump heard on Tuesday the notification of the 34 charges against him, all of them consisting of different types of “falsification of commercial registers”, before leaving the courts and returning to his residence in Mar-a-Lago, Florida. According to the accusation, his actions violate “article 175.10 of the Penal Code” and are defined as an “attempt to defraud and commit another crime” and to hide it.