- Trump noted in an interview with Fox that Biden did call him
- He spoke of his rise in the polls after being accused of electoral interference
Former President Donald Trump issued a blunt statement in an interview with Fox News in which he claimed he had “every right” to interfere in a presidential election while expressing amazement at how his poll numbers rose after being impeached.
Trump made the comment in an interview with conservative talk show host Mark Levin while complaining about the new indictment from special counsel Jack Smith’s team.
“Anyone who heard that he was being impeached for interfering in a presidential election when he had every right to do so, he was impeached and his poll numbers went up. When people are impeached, their poll numbers went down. But it was nonsense,” Trump said. he said in the interview.
He called it a “bad precedent” that he was charged in the Jan. 6 case and took personal credit for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton not being charged with any crimes during her own tenure.
“I had to make a decision. Do I want to do this? Do I want to put the wife of the president of the United States and the secretary of state, by the way, in prison? Do I want to put her in prison? And I’m trying to unify a country that’s really very broken,” Trump said.
Trump’s statement echoes arguments by his legal team in an immunity case that his interventions with state election officials fall within the scope of his office.
Trump also visited the aftermath of the assassination attempt on him at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
“Anybody who’s heard him being impeached for interfering in a presidential election when he has every right to do so, he gets impeached and his poll numbers go up,” former President Donald Trump told Fox News radio host and interviewer Mark Levin.
Levin asked if he received a call or note from Harris.
“No,” Trump replied. “Not that I know of.”
He then mentioned that “I got a letter from Biden.” Biden had previously spoken about how he reached out to Trump after the assassination attempt.
Trump called his own prosecution “the worst case of election interference anyone has ever seen.”
Do I want to put the wife of a president of the United States in prison? I didn’t want to do that.
Trump also spoke about the election interference case in Georgia and his hush hush trial in New York. “This is all coming out of the Justice Department to get their political opponent, me,” he said, echoing an allegation that the Justice Department and Attorney General Merrick Garland have denied.
Trump said he had “every right” to interfere in the 2020 election. The statement echoes arguments by his legal team in an immunity case that his interventions with state election authorities fall within the scope of his office.
Trump said Vice President Kamala Harris did not call him after assassination attempt
Trump said he was “surprised” by Garland, and later claimed he considered re-nominating him to the Supreme Court after Senate Republicans blocked Obama’s nomination at the end of Obama’s term.
The result was to give Trump the first of three Supreme Court nominations.
“I’m surprised by Merrick Garland because I thought he was – I knew he was very liberal. There were those who said, you know, because when I came in, I put in three Supreme Court justices. And they’ve been very courageous, actually, in many ways. But they’re very, you know, highly regarded people. But there were some people who wanted me to put him in when I first came in. And they thought that would unify the country,” Trump said.
“I had to make a decision and I didn’t know if it would be accepted or if people would say, ‘What is he doing? Why is he doing it? ‘ And then I said, ‘I wonder if they will do it,’ and if they had that option, which is a conservative option, they wouldn’t do it.