In an interview broadcast late Sunday, Former President Donald Trump weighed in on the indictments he’s facing for allegedly interfering with the 2020 election.
The former president was speaking with Fox News’s “Life, Liberty and Levin” when he told the host that he had “every right” to interfere with the election.
“It’s so crazy that my poll numbers go up. Whoever heard you get indicted for interfering with a presidential election, where you have every right to do it, you get indicted, and your poll numbers go up. When people get indicted, your poll numbers go down,” Trump said.
Trump is currently fighting several legal battles, but one federal indictment involved his alleged actions to subvert the 2020 election results.
Another in Georgia involves racketeering and other state counts over an alleged scheme to influence the state’s results. That case was brought against Trump by Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis, who Trump says “came up with this crazy scheme, and a lot of people were hurt.”
The Republican nominee said that the legal action taken against him is actually election interference and something that has never been seen before.
“Well, this is the worst case of election interference that anyone’s ever seen, certainly in our country,” Trump said during the Fox News interview. “They do this in Third World countries; they have some of it in South America, they don’t do it a lot, believe it or not. But they do it. And it’s such a bad precedent because people are going to think about it differently, and they’re going to think about it differently. And it’s very sad, actually.”
Like many of his supporters, Trump argued that the cases brought against him were politically motivated and an effort to stop him from returning to the White House.
“They put people in the DA’s office,” Trump said. “This was all coming out of the Department of Justice in order to get their political opponent — me.”
The Harris campaign has responded to Trump’s comments, with Harris-Walz campaign spokesperson Sarafina Chitka saying on Monday that Trump was pushing “false history.”
“Everything Donald Trump has promised on the campaign trail – from ‘terminating’ the Constitution, to imprisoning his political opponents and promising to rule as a dictator on ‘day one’ – makes it clear that he believes he is above the law. Now, Trump is claiming he had ‘every right’ to interfere in the 2020 election. He did not,” Chitka said.