Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Wednesday criticized the historic charges against former President Donald Trump, suggesting the indictment is politically motivated.
“Supposedly legal issues should not be used for electoral purposes,” López Obrador told reporters at a briefing on Wednesday, according to the AFP and Associated Press news agencies. “I don’t agree with what they are doing to former President Trump,” he also said. “I do not know if crimes were committed, it’s not my place.”
He described the charges against Trump as a “smear campaign” and added that “it should be the people who decide.”
Other than López Obrador, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban publicly spoke out about the charges. In a Twitter post, Orban told Trump to “keep on fighting” and said that “we are with you.”
López Obrador had a warm relationship with Trump, despite the former U.S. president’s public statements that he would build a wall separating the two countries to stave off illegal immigration from Mexico.
After López Obrador agreed to help keep illegal aliens at the U.S.–Mexico border in what was known as the Migrant Protection Protocols, Trump largely refrained from criticizing Mexico and its president’s policies.
Both Trump and López Orbrado have often said they’ve had elections stolen from them, and both frequently criticize the media in their respective countries. During the 2006 and 2012 presidential elections, López Orbrador alleged there was massive voter fraud that denied him victories.
After it was announced by Trump last month that he would be arrested, the Mexican president also suggested that the charges were politically motivated. Trump then praised López Orbrador, a left-wing populist commonly referred to as AMLO, on Truth Social.
López Obrador notably criticized social media companies for banning Trump’s accounts in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach. In November of last year, he urged Twitter under Elon Musk to reinstate Trump’s then-suspended account.
Few other world leaders have offered their opinions on the Manhattan District Attorney’s charges against the former president. The White House, meanwhile, has generally refrained from commenting on the charges against Trump.
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