Former President Donald Trump earlier this week announced his 3rd statesmanlike run. | Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Donald Trump was speedy to onslaught Attorney General Merrick Garland’s appointment of a peculiar prosecutor to oversee transgression investigations of the erstwhile president.
“I person been going done this for six years — for six years I person been going done this, and I americium not going to spell done it anymore,” Trump told Fox News Digital successful an interview Friday. “And I anticipation the Republicans person the courageousness to combat this.”
Trump, who earlier this week announced his 3rd statesmanlike run, is facing a fig of investigations which volition present autumn nether the peculiar prosecutor’s purview, including allegedly storing classified documents astatine his Mar-a-Lago property and allegedly inciting the Jan. 6 riots. On Friday, the erstwhile president maintained his innocence, calling the assignment “unfair,” “political,” “not adjacent believable,” and “the worst politicization of justness successful our country.”
“I person been proven guiltless for six years connected everything — from fake impeachments to Mueller, who recovered nary collusion, and present I person to bash it more? It is not acceptable. It is truthful unfair. It is truthful political,” Trump told Fox, adding “I americium not going to partake successful it.”
White House property caput Karine Jean-Pierre said the White House did not person immoderate beforehand announcement of the appointment.
“This is — the Department of Justice makes their ain determination erstwhile it relates to transgression investigation. We were not involved,” Jean-Pierre said.
When asked specifically astir Trump’s comments to Fox, Jean-Pierre reaffirmed the White House’s stance.
“We bash not politicize the Department of Justice. That is thing that the president said during the campaign. That is thing that the president said during his aboriginal days of being successful the White House, and that continues to beryllium true. We were not progressive successful this peculiar issue,” Jean-Pierre said.
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