El Salvador President Criticizes Trump Indictment Saying It Undermines US Foreign Policy

The President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, criticized the indictment of former President Donald Trump, arguing that it undermines US foreign policy on promoting democracy abroad.

“Think what you want about former President Trump and the reasons he’s being indicted,” Bukele wrote in an April 4 tweet. “But just imagine if this happened in any other country, where a government arrested the main opposition candidate. The United States’ ability to use ‘democracy’ as foreign policy is gone.”

The Manhattan District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, a Democrat elected in a deep blue county who has prosecuted Trump, charged Trump with 34 counts of falsifying business documents related to a 2016 payment for a nondisclosure agreement with adult entertainment actress Stormy Daniels mediated by then-Trump attorney Michael Cohen.

Trump pleaded not guilty to the indictment, and Bragg defended his case against the former president, saying that Trump employed a “catch-and-kill” scheme to “identify, purchase, and bury negative information about him and boost his electoral prospects.”

Trump and several of his family members spoke out after the April 4 arraignment, which marked the first of its kind for a former US president.

Son Eric Trump criticized Alvin Bragg, and said that the Manhattan district attorney’s prosecution of his father endangered the lives of New Yorkers.

Furthermore, in an interview with Fox News, Eric Trump spoke against the indictment of his father.