(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 31 - The United States is trying to use
the courts to stop Donald Trump being elected president for the
second time, ruling rightwing League party leader and deputy
premier Matteo Salvini said after the presumptive Republican
candidate in the November elections became the first American ex
president to become a felon after his conviction on all counts
in the Stormy Daniels hush money case in New York Thursday.
"In the USA they're trying to stop Trump by using the courtrooms
like a club like they did against Berlusconi for 30 years," said
Salvini, who is also transport minister.
Salvini described the hush money trial as a "political trial"
and said he hoped the former real estate mogul and Apprentice
star would win the November 4 election against Democratic
President Joe Biden.
"I voice my solidarity and full support for Trump, in this and
all his other cases," said Salvini, referring to the former
president's three other prosecutions, for allegedly trying to
rig the vote in Georgia, for allegedly taking classified
documents home, and for allegedly suborning insurrection in the
January 6, 2021 White House riots. (ANSA).
US trying to use courts to stop Trump says Salvini
Using cases like a club as they did with Berlusconi for 30 years