トランプ氏に対する司法闘争「ばかげている」 オリヴァー・ストーン監督

【パリＡＦＰ＝時事】米映画監督のオリヴァー・ストーン氏（７７）は１２日、ドナルド・トランプ前大統領に対する数々の司法闘争は「すべて政治的」なものであり、トランプ氏は「ローフェア」（政治家を沈黙させるための訴追）の犠牲者だと述べた。（写真はローマで映画『Ｎｕｃｌｅａｒ Ｎｏｗ（原題）』のイベントに出席した米映画監督オリヴァー・ストーン氏）
　ストーン監督は、原子力に関するドキュメンタリー映画『Ｎｕｃｌｅａｒ Ｎｏｗ（原題）』のプロモーションのために訪れた仏パリでＡＦＰのインタビューに応じた。
　その中でトランプ氏に対する司法闘争に触れ、「あの男に対して約１００件の起訴。ばかばかしい」と発言。「これはすべて政治的なものだ。彼を投獄したいのだろうが、それはできないだろう」と語った。
　だが、ストーン氏は今年１１月の米大統領選ではトランプ氏に投票しないと述べた。
　「誰もが腐敗している。ロシアは汚職で動いているし、トルコも、米国もそうだ。汚職は生活の一部なのに、それを政治問題化している」
　一方、現職のジョー・バイデン大統領にも投票しないと明言。「バイデンには絶対（投票）しない。なぜならバイデンは戦争屋だからだ」と批判した。
　『ＪＦＫ』や『プラトーン（Ｐｌａｔｏｏｎ）』、『スノーデン（Ｓｎｏｗｄｅｎ）』といった問題作を送り出してきたストーン監督は、ベトナム戦争での従軍経験がある。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2024/03/14-18:26）

Maverick American director Oliver Stone told AFP that the legal proceedings against Donald Trump are all political and that the ex-president was a victim of lawfare -- when prosecutions are used to silence political figures.
Almost 100 indictments against the guy... it's ridiculous, said Stone.
This is all political. They want to put him behind bars, but they're not going to be able to, he added.
However, the 77-year-old director of JFK, Platoon and Snowden said that he would not vote for Trump in this November's US presidential election.
Everyone's corrupt. Russia runs on corruption, so does Turkey. So does the United States. Corruption is a way of life, but they make it into a political issue now, Stone insisted.
But he said he would not be voting for incumbent President Joe Biden either.
Never for Biden, because Biden is a warmonger, said the Vietnam veteran.
Stone spoke to AFP Tuesday during a trip to Paris to promote his documentary about nuclear energy, Nuclear Now.
He said he has been thinking a lot about lawfare as he has recently completed a film about Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
- 'Freethinker' -
Lula, as he is widely known, was imprisoned in 2018 on corruption and money-laundering charges after several years in power.
The charges were overthrown after an investigation found the judge was biased, and Lula was re-elected president last year.
The concept of lawfare is all over the world, and it's been used for political reasons, weaponised, said Stone.
And so that's what they did with Lula. They put him in jail and he got out and he won the election. It was a hell of a story... but people don't know it, except in Brazil.
Stone has often focused on Latin American leftist leaders, with no less than three documentaries about the late Cuban leader Fidel Castro, and one about his friend the Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, who died in 2013.
Lula, Castro and Chavez were all humanists, he said.
They're all great. They're all original, doing the best they can for their country. I think Chavez was motivated by love of country. So it was Castro.
There is not yet a release date for his Lula film, though he has launched previous films at the Cannes Film Festival, which takes place in May.
Stone has often been denounced as a conspiracy theorist for his views on US foreign policy and the assassination of John F. Kennedy, laid out in JFK and a follow-up documentary.
He has a simple response for his detractors. I'm a freethinker.