The Republican presidential candidate and convicted of 34 criminal charges, Donald Trump, was interviewed on Monday by officials of the New York probation department, a necessary step prior to the imposition of the sentence, scheduled for July 11. During the contact, made … By videoconference from his residence at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, the former White House tenant was accompanied by his lawyer Todd Blanche, an exception to the regulations that does not allow legal advice but that Judge Juan Merchán granted to the magnate in writing on Friday.
The purpose of the meeting is to prepare a report, which includes interviews with family, friends and people affected by the crime, which will help the judge determine the appropriate sentence according to the attitude and predisposition of the convicted person. The fact that he has no remorse and continues to deny his guilt, said former Massachusetts federal prosecutor Jeffrey Cohen, “will hurt him at sentencing. “It is one of the things, widely known, that the judge can use as a solid basis for sentencing him,” he said.
Trump, who in recent weeks has reduced his attacks on Judge Merchán, went to Las Vegas on Sunday to hold his first campaign rally since the trial for hiding payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels during the 2016 campaign to obtain her silence about an extramarital relationship. There his anger targeted Biden and illegal immigration.
At an outdoor event in a park about six miles from the Las Vegas casino corridor, Trump called Nevada, a key electoral state, a “dumping ground” for unauthorized immigrants while calling it “weak, ineffective,” and, literally “s***” the current president’s recent executive order to stop illegal entries across the Mexican border. With each attack, his supporters repeated the disqualification in chorus.
At a rally aimed at courting Hispanic voters, many of them immigrants or descendants of them, the former president noted that the people of Nevada have had “a front-row seat to the evil and criminal destruction of our southern border by Joe “Biden.” Immigrants, he said, are “totally destroying” black and Hispanic Americans.
Wink to Hispanics
The Trump campaign has redoubled its efforts to attract the Hispanic electorate, a key and increasingly influential electoral bloc in states like Nevada, for which it has renewed its slogan ‘Latinos for Trump’ to ‘Latino-Americans for Trump’. Hispanics make up about 29.33% of the population of Nevada, a Democratic state in the last twenty years, which Biden won in 2020 by 2.5 points, but which the former head of the Baltic House now leads with more than 5 advantage points.
If elected, Trump has promised mass deportations, the end of birthright citizenship, as well as the reinstatement of the ban on people from Muslim-majority nations entering the country.
Bad-tempered at not having a teleprompter, due to a failure of the contracted company, Trump was forced to improvise, in a more erratic speech than usual, riddled with conspiracy and personal disqualifications. In his usual rhetoric, he called immigrants “changing the fabric” of the country, and called Biden’s plan “pro-invasion, pro-trafficking in children and people,” and pro “for drug traffickers.” drugs.” The speech came a few days after the current US president announced an executive order authorizing the closure of the southeastern border when border crossings exceed 2,500 people per day.
At one point, he referred to Biden’s family as a “criminal family” and at others talked about his pending court cases. Under infernal heat at rallies in Las Vegas and Phoenix, which forced two dozen people in the audience to seek medical attention, Trump promised to reverse climate change policy by repeating his oil industry support slogan of “drill, baby, drill.”
In Sin City, his hardline acolyte Marjorie Taylor Greene compared the millionaire, convicted of secret payments to silence a porn actress, to Jesus Christ. «The man I pray to is also a convicted felon. And he was murdered on a Roman cross,” she noted jubilantly from the stand. The comparisons with Christ are not casual but obey a calculated Trump agenda that tries to exploit popularity among white evangelical Christians. He himself has hinted at comparisons with the martyrology of Christ, – and even with that of imprisoned South African leader Nelson Mandela – despite not having been able to indicate his favorite Bible passage when asked.
On the other side of the country, the criminal trial against the president’s son, Hunter Biden, for illegal possession of a weapon, is nearing its end, with a calculated threat veiled. The case, pushed by Republicans to weaken Biden, is supervised by two judges appointed by Trump, and although there is no date set yet, Trump’s sentencing in July could have a negative impact on Hunter Biden’s.
