Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador expressed his beliefs this week that if former President Donald Trump were to be convicted in connection to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office investigation, it would be to prevent him from running for reelection in 2024.
“Right now, former President Trump is declaring that they are going to arrest him,” Lopez Obrador said during a news conference on Tuesday, according to transcribed remarks from Newsweek.
“If that were the case … it would be so that his name doesn’t appear on the ballot,” he continued.
Lopez Obrador, a socialist leader who took office in late 2018, explained that he’s speaking out in the defense of Trump because he also experienced “the fabrication of a crime” that sought to prevent him from gaining political office in 2006 and 2012….