A new CNN report indicated that former President Donald Trump said in 2016 that having a president under federal impeachment would create “an unprecedented constitutional crisis” in the United States, referring to the ongoing investigation. about Democratic presidential candidate Hilary Clinton.
Now, Trump finds himself in exactly the same situation, as he aspires to reach the White House in the next presidential elections of 2024 and faces, in turn, 37 federal charges for the mishandling of classified documents, which he took to his private residence, Mar-a-Lago, in Florida.
According to a KFile file, on November 5, 2016, Trump said that “we could have a president under criminal indictment and he could be brought up in a criminal trial.” The statement was given during a campaign event in the city of Reno, located in the state of Nevada.
Days before Trump gave these statements, the then director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), James Comey, had announced the reopening of an investigation into Hilary Clinton.
This investigation, ironically, was also about Clinton’s handling of classified information via a private server while serving as secretary of state under the Barack Obama administration.
Later, on November 3, 2016, Trump said that if Hilary Clinton were elected president, “this would create an unprecedented constitutional crisis, which would paralyze the operations of our government.”
At the time, Trump said that Clinton was likely to be investigated for several years. “It will probably end up, in my opinion, in a criminal trial. Who knows, but it is what it seems.
And finally, Trump asserted, in 2016, that Clinton “has no right to run, they know that. He has no right.”
Faced with the current accusations against Trump, the former Republican president pleaded “not guilty” to the charges, and has chosen to affirm that the entire process, led by special counsel Jack Smith, is a “witch hunt.” .
Despite the federal accusation against him, Trump has not announced his intention to withdraw from the presidential race, and even some Republican candidates such as Asa Hutchinson have suggested that the former president, if re-elected, could “pardon himself.” ”, granting a presidential pardon in the event that he is found guilty.
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