Salvini’s remarks came after Trump 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 on Thursday.
Trump is the presumptive Republican candidate at the upcoming November elections.
“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 The 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.
One of them is for allegedly trying to rig the vote in Georgia, another for allegedly taking classified documents home and the third for allegedly suborning insurrection resulting in the January 6 riots in 2021.
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