The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, affirmed this Wednesday that the former US president Donald Trump faces complaints against him for his aspirations to compete again for the presidency of that country.
“It is exposed to a smear campaign under the maxim that slander when it does not stain tarnish”, affirmed López Obrador, a day after Trump became the first former president impeached by justice in the history of the United States.
The 76-year-old billionaire faces 34 charges related to paying $130,000 to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016 to keep her quiet about an alleged extramarital affair dating back to 2006 that he has always denied.
Trump declarednot guilty” of falsifying accounting documents during a criminal hearing Tuesday in New York, his hometown.
“I do not know if he has committed crimes, it is not my responsibility, it strikes me that they are accusing him of something that happened (…) in 2006,” López Obrador declared during his usual morning conference.
The leftist Mexican president also argued that “legal matters, supposedly legal matters, should not be used for electoral political purposes.”
“That is why I do not agree with what they are doing to former President Trump, I do not agree. It’s just that I already suffered from it,” added López Obrador who in 2004, when he was mayor, faced an impeachment trial that sought to prevent him from running for the 2006 presidential election.
This is the second time that López Obrador has come out in defense of Trump in the last two weeks, after on March 21 he criticized the possible arrest of the former Republican president for the same case.
López Obrador’s sympathy for the New York magnate occurs despite the aggressive anti-Mexican rhetoric that he used during the campaign that brought him to the US presidency in 2016 and that he maintained occasionally when he was already in power.
During that campaign, Trump asserted that many Mexicans who migrated to the United States were “rapists” and that they brought “drugs” and “crime” to their country.
Although López Obrador assured as a candidate that he would confront Trump for his stance against Mexico, once in the presidency he maintained a very cordial and cooperative relationship, with controversial edges in the case of migration, in which both leaders called each other “friends”. ”.
Source: Gestion
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