Milei Attacks Press, Defends Espert After Machado Plea Deal
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Milei attacks press, defends Espert after Machado plea deal
President Javier Milei launches another assault on the press, denouncing a “media operation” by “trash” journalists against former lawmaker José Luis Espert; Attack comes after ‘Fred’ Machado pleads guilty to money-laundering and fraud in bid to avoid drug-trafficking charges
The President wrote that the U.S. justice “declared Machado’s innocence” in the drug trafficking charge; but he omitted that this is part of an agreement in which he pleads guilty to laundering and swindling; a judge must endorse the negotiation on Monday.
Although the President already deemed him "innocent," the former congressional candidate's situation has become more complicated due to the plea agreement reached by the businessman detained in Texas. His case remains open in San Isidro. Javier Milei again defended Espert, calling it "an infamous operation": "Shitty journalists." José Luis Espert is still far from being considered innocent in the case linking him to Federico "Fred" Machado, as P…
President Javier Milei again attacked journalism and publicly backed economist José Luis Espert after businessman Federico "Fred" Machado pleaded guilty to money laundering and fraud before the U.S. Justice, so that the drug trafficking charges would be dropped. Machado's proposal was presented to the prosecution and must still be ratified by the judge of the case on Monday. However, the president took it as a res judicata to defend his former c…
Through an extensive post in X, the president maintained that the liberal economist was “defamated” and “publicly condemned without evidence” amid accusations linked to a drug trafficking cause that, he said, ended with a declaration of innocence by the U.S. Justice regarding the person involved in the file. President Javier Milei published this Sunday a very harsh message on social network X in defense of Congressman José Luis Espert, claiming …
The President reacted harshly after it became known that Texas courts dropped drug trafficking charges against the financier who contributed funds to the economist's campaign in 2019. Milei's entry launched a lit defense of Espert following the "Fred" Machado deal was first published in #BorderPeriodism.
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