Global leaders unite in support of Trump following verdict

News of former President Donald Trump‘s guilty verdict on 34 counts of falsifying business records has reverberated across the world — and now global leaders are weighing in.

Some, like pro-Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage called the verdict a “disgrace,” which was in marked contrast to leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party Keir Starmer, who said his party “respects” the court’s decision.

The Kremlin said on Friday that the verdict demonstrated the Biden administration‘s efforts to eliminate political opponents for personal gain.

“If we speak about Trump, the fact that there is simply the elimination, in effect, of political rivals by all possible means, legal and illegal, is obvious,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. “That is evident to everyone, to the whole world, with the naked eye.”

Matteo Salvini, the current deputy prime minister of Italy and leader of the right-wing Lega party, offered his “solidarity and full support” to Trump on X, soon after Trump’s guilty verdicts were read.

Salvini also called the presumptive 2024 GOP presidential nominee a “victim of judicial harassment and a process of political nature,” and said that Italians were “sadly familiar with the weaponization of the justice system by the left.”

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has publicly endorsed Trump in the 2024 election, also rushed to his side, describing him as a “man of honour’ on social media.

“As President, he always put America first, he commanded respect around the world and used this respect to build peace,” he said.

Orban also echoed Trump’s statement that American voters will “make their verdict this November.”

Trump called the verdict a sham on Thursday and attacked the criminal justice system. He ticked off a list of grievances he claimed prevented him from getting a fair trial, including attacking the judge and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

Starmer, Britain’s expected new prime minister and former head of the country’s prosecution service, warned that the appeals process still needed to play out.

“We are in an unprecedented situation,” he told Good Morning Scotland. “There’s no doubt about that.”He added that Britain would be ready to work with whomever is elected president in November.

Japan’s chief cabinet secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi refrained from getting involved in another country’s judicial matters.

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“We are closely monitoring related developments and will continue to gather information,” Hayashi, who has a role equivalent to chief of staff and was previously Japan’s foreign minister. “The Japanese government is not in a position to make comments with presumption about the impact on the presidential election.”

Officials from America’s other traditional allies, like France, Germany, and Canada have not made public statements on the case.