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Biden’s campaign: the verdict against Trump shows that “no one is above the law”
The campaign team of US President Joe Biden considered on Thursday that the verdict of a New York jury against former Republican president Donald Trump (2017-2021) shows that “no one is above the law.”
“Today in New York we saw that no one is above the law,” the campaign’s Director of Communications, Michael Tyler, said in a statement.
Biden’s team assured that Trump, his future electoral rival in the November elections, had “erroneously believed” that he would not face consequences for “violating the law for his personal benefit,” but today reality showed that this is not the case.
Biden himself said, after the ruling, that there is only one way to keep former president Donald Trump (2017-2021) out of the White House, and that is to go to the polls on November 5.
“There is only one way to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office: at the polls,” he said in a message through the social network X, in which he asked for donations for his campaign, and which he published an hour after the guilty verdict against the former president was known.
Biden’s campaign said that Thursday’s verdict does not alter the fact that U.S. citizenship faces an important decision at the polls in November and stressed that the “only way” to prevent Trump from returning to the White House is through voting.
“Convicted criminal or not, Trump will be the Republican candidate for the presidency,” the campaign stressed.
In this regard, Biden’s team took the opportunity to emphasize that Trump represents an unprecedented “threat” to American democracy and assured that another four years of his in the White House would mean “chaos” with the former president depriving students of their freedoms and encouraging “political violence.”
The president has not spoken directly about the verdict against Trump, leaving the political response to his campaign team.
The White House did speak briefly. In a statement, a spokesman for the legal team of the Presidency limited himself to saying: “We respect the rule of law and we do not have any additional comments.”
Biden was this Thursday at his residence in the beach town of Rehoboth, in the state of Delaware, and did not have any public event.
This Thursday marks the anniversary of the death in 2015 of Beau Biden, one of the president’s children, who died at the age of 46 from a brain tumor. On every anniversary, the Democratic leader usually mourns and has no public events.
Biden has tried to keep his distance from the judicial cases that Trump faces with the aim of showing respect for the judicial system and making it clear that the Department of Justice acts independently, unlike what the former president claims.
In fact, Trump assured the press that it is a: “rigged and shameful trial” and “orchestrated by the Biden Administration to harm or harm a political opponent.”
Trump was found guilty of the 34 charges for having falsified some commercial records after having irregularly paid the porn actress Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential campaign to keep silent about the adventure they allegedly had.
International
U.S. and Mexico Reach Deal to Address Water Deficit Under 1944 Treaty
The United States and Mexico have reached an agreement to comply with current water obligations affecting U.S. farmers and ranchers and for Mexico to cover its water deficit to Texas under the 1944 Water Treaty, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in a statement.
The department уточified that the agreement applies to both the current cycle and the water deficit from the previous cycle.
On Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump accused Mexico of failing to comply with the water-sharing treaty between the two countries, which requires the United States to deliver 1.85 billion cubic meters of water from the Colorado River, while Mexico must supply 432 million cubic meters from the Rio Grande.
Mexico is behind on its commitments. According to Washington, the country has accumulated a deficit of more than one billion cubic meters of water over the past five years.
“This violation is severely harming our beautiful crops and our livestock in Texas,” Trump wrote on Monday.
The Department of Agriculture said on Friday that Mexico had agreed to supply 250 million cubic meters of water starting next week and to work toward closing the shortfall.
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, quoted in the statement, said Mexico delivered more water in a single year than it had over the previous four years combined.
Trump has said that if Mexico continues to fall short of its obligations, the United States reserves the right to impose 5% tariffs on imported Mexican products.
Mexico’s Deputy Foreign Minister for North America, Roberto Velasco, said that a severe drought in 2022 and 2023prevented the country from meeting its commitments.
International
Several people shot in attack on Brown University campus
Several people were shot on Saturday in an attack on the campus of Brown University, in the northeastern United States, local police reported.
“Shelter in place and avoid the area until further notice,” the Providence Police Department urged in a post on X. Brown University is located in Providence, the capital of the state of Rhode Island.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on his social media platform Truth Social that he had been briefed on the situation and that the FBI was on the scene.
At 5:52 p.m. local time (11:52 p.m. GMT), Brown University said the situation was still “ongoing” and instructed students to remain sheltered until further notice.
After initially stating that the suspect had been taken into custody, Trump later posted a second message clarifying that local police had walked back that information. “The suspect has NOT been apprehended,” the U.S. president said.
International
Colombia says it would not reject Maduro asylum request as regional tensions escalate
The Colombian government stated on Thursday that it would have no reason to reject a potential asylum request from Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro should he leave office, as regional tensions persist over the deployment of U.S. military forces in the Caribbean since August.
“In the current climate of tension, negotiations are necessary, and if the United States demands a transition or political change, that is something to be assessed. If such a transition results in him (Maduro) needing to live elsewhere or seek protection, Colombia would have no reason to deny it,” said Colombian Foreign Minister Rosa Villavicencio in an interview with Caracol Radio.
However, Villavicencio noted that it is unlikely Maduro would choose Colombia as a refuge. “I believe he would opt for someplace more distant and calmer,” she added.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro also commented on Venezuela’s situation on Wednesday, arguing that the country needs a “democratic revolution” rather than “inefficient repression.” His remarks followed the recent detention and passport cancellation of Cardinal Baltazar Porras at the Caracas airport.
“The Maduro government must understand that responding to external aggression requires more than military preparations; it requires a democratic revolution. A country is defended with more democracy, not more inefficient repression,” Petro wrote on X (formerly Twitter), in a rare public criticism of the Venezuelan leader.
Petro also called for a general amnesty for political opponents and reiterated his call for forming a broad transitional government to address Venezuela’s prolonged crisis.
Since September, U.S. military forces have destroyed more than 20 vessels allegedly carrying drugs in Caribbean and Pacific waters near Venezuela and Colombia, resulting in over 80 deaths.
U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly warned that attacks “inside Venezuela” will begin “soon,” while Maduro has urged Venezuelans to prepare for what he describes as an impending external aggression.
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