Trump thanks Boris Johnson for slamming conviction as ‘mob-style hit job’

Donald Trump has thanked Boris Johnson for slamming his hush money conviction as a “‘mob-style hit job.”

The former Prime Minister wrote a lengthy article describing Trump’s chances of victory in the US presidential race as “more likely” and dismissed the case as “a load of stunted up old nonsense”. In a lengthy piece in the Daily Mail, Johnson said: “This was no ordinary political assassination. This was a machine-gun mob-style hit-job on Trump.”

This is despite a New York jury finding Trump guilty of falsifying business records in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through hush money payments to adult actress Stormy Daniels, who said the two had a sexual encounter, which Trump denies.

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Taking to Truth Social, Trump thanked Boris Johnson as he quoted his article. He wrote: “Thank you to Boris Johnson!” before listing the former PM’s words.

“This was a machine-gun mob-style hit job on Trump. It was nakedly political – and will make his victory more likely, not less”, Johnson wrote.

“It was nakedly political. It was completely artificial. The Democrat prosecutors thought they were being so clever: tripping Trump up over this technicality – like collaring Al Capone for tax evasion, they probably told themselves. Except that everyone with any common sense can see what I consider their real motives, how they were combing the rule book for stuff to use against Trump,” he continued.

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“The vast mass of American voters could see what I believe was really happening: that the liberal elites were just appalled at Trump’s continuing popularity and his ability to connect with voters – and they were using anything they could find to derail his campaign. That is why the anti-Trump lawfare is backfiring.”

Johnson praised Trump for his time in office, although he admitted the former president should have conceded defeat when he lost to Joe Biden in 2021. He added: “If you look dispassionately at his time in office, both on the domestic and international front, it was far more successful than his Left-wing critics allow.

“They should not be using legal tricks like this to prevent him from receiving the judgment that really matters – the verdict of the people. Whatever they may claim now, that is exactly what his opponents were hoping these cases would achieve. More fool them. By pursuing these cases, they have helped to make his victory more likely, not less.”