Putin: Trump's criminal cases 'politically motivated persecution'

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday considered his former American counterpart, Donald Trump, a victim of "politically motivated persecution" against the backdrop of his candidacy in the 2024 US presidential elections against Democratic President Joe Biden.

“It is politically motivated persecution by his rival,” Putin said during the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, located in the Far East of Russia, considering that this reflects “the rot of the American system.”