In the middle of the American presidential campaign, Donald Trump is once again not pulling his punches to speak about those who do not want his return to the Oval Office of the White House. In an incendiary post on Monday, the former president indeed calls his opponents “scum”, the day when Americans mark the memory of their soldiers who died in combat and on the eve of the start of the pleadings in his criminal trial in New York.
“Happy Memorial Day to everyone, including the human scum who are hellbent on destroying what was once our great country, and to the New York federal judge of the radical left who hates me so much…” he wrote on his Truth Social network, before engaging in a long tirade about his legal setbacks.
Trump already fined for contempt
The former tenant of the White House had trouble with Judge Juan Merchan who is presiding over his trial in New York and who has already fined him for contempt.
By contrast, Democratic President Joe Biden, to whom he will be opposed in the November presidential election, gave a speech at around the same time at Arlington Cemetery, near Washington, in memory of the combatants who died in service. Memorial Day is traditionally a public holiday in the United States and the long weekend marks the start of the summer season.
Return to court
Donald Trump is expected this Tuesday in New York court for the final stretch of his trial where he could become the first former president in the history of the United States to be convicted by criminal justice. In question, the payment of 130,000 dollars, disguised as legal fees, to a former pornographic film star, Stormy Daniels, to silence a sexual relationship, which he denies.
In his post, the Republican candidate denounces his civil conviction last January to pay damages to the author E. Jean Carroll for having defamed her, against a backdrop of accusations of rape in the 1990s, as well as in February his conviction to several million dollars in fines for financial fraud for having illegally inflated the value of his real estate assets. Both cases went to court in New York and Donald Trump appealed.