AMLO accuses “smear campaign” against Trump for electoral purposes

The president of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obradoraffirmed this Wednesday that the former US president donald trump He faces complaints against him for his aspirations to compete again for the presidency of that country.

“It is exposed to a smear campaign under the maxim that slander when it does not stain tarnish”, affirmed López Obrador, a day after Trump became the first former president indicted by justice in the history of USA.

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The 76-year-old billionaire faces 34 charges related to his 2016 payment of $130,000 to the porn star. stormy daniels to keep quiet about an alleged extramarital affair that dates back to 2006 and that he has always denied.

Trump declarednot guilty” of falsifying accounting documents during a criminal hearing held on Tuesday in NYyour natal city.

“I don’t know if he has committed crimes, it is not my responsibility, it strikes me that they are accusing him of something that happened (…) in 2006″, declared López Obrador during his usual morning conference.

The leftist Mexican president further argued that “The legal, supposedly legal matters, should not be used for electoral political purposes.”.

“That is why I do not agree with what they are doing to former President Trump, I do not agree. It is that I already suffered it”, added López Obrador who in 2004, when he was mayor, faced an impeachment trial that sought to prevent his candidacy in the 2006 presidential elections.

This is the second time that López Obrador has come out in defense of Trump in the last two weeks, after on March 21 he criticized the possible arrest of the former Republican president for the same case.

López Obrador’s sympathy for the New York magnate occurs despite the aggressive anti-Mexican rhetoric that he used during the campaign that brought him to the US presidency in 2016 and that he maintained occasionally when he was already in power.

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During that campaign, Trump asserted that many Mexicans who migrated to the United States were “rapists“and what they wore”drugs” and “crime” to your country.

Although López Obrador assured as a candidate that he would confront Trump for his position against Mexicoonce in the presidency he maintained a very cordial and cooperative relationship, with controversial edges in the case of migration, in which both leaders called each other “friends”.

Source: Elcomercio

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