Republicans say they won’t tolerate a “witch hunt” against Trump

A large number of Republican Party officials believed this Thursday that the impeachment of former US President Donald Trump (2017-2021) “Witch hunt” and warned that the American population “will not tolerate it”.

“The American people will not tolerate this injustice, and the House of Representatives will hold (prosecutor) Alvin Bragg and his unprecedented abuse of power accountable,” House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said, according to Efe.

For a conservative lawmaker, prosecutor “he irreparably damaged the country in his attempt to interfere in the presidential election”.

Senator Lindsey Graham, a Trump ally and involved in another of the former president’s legal cases – an attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the state of Georgia – also criticized the charge.

Graham, who spoke to Trump by phone after the news broke, said in an interview he collected The Washington Post that the former president told him that they were “using the law as a weapon”, with which the senator agreed.

However, he distanced himself from the idea of ​​calling for attribution protestssomething the former president himself did just over a week ago when he said he expected to be arrested, according to Efe.

The Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDanielthey agreed that it was a politically motivated decision.

“When our justice system is used as a political tool, it puts us all at risk. This is a flagrant abuse of power by a district attorney focused on political revenge instead of protecting people,” he said on Twitter.

When our justice system is weaponized as a political tool, it endangers us all.

This is a clear abuse of power by a prosecutor focused on political revenge instead of protecting people. https://t.co/LtS1QZWouW

—Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) March 30, 2023

For conservative lawmaker Jim Jordan, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, what happened is simply “scandalous,” he posted on the same social network.

Matt Schlapp, chairman of the conservative political action conference CPAC, called the New York prosecutor’s decision “an abuse of power.”

“The persecution and new impeachment of President Trump is an outrageous violation of constitutional norms and a continuation of insane political persecution,” Schlapp wrote in a statement.

Who hasn’t talked to the news right now is The leader of conservatives in the Senate Mitch McConnellthe main figure of the opposition to Trump within the Republican Party and a frequent target of criticism of the former president.

“No one is above the law,” say the Democrats

Democrats, for their part, insisted that “no one is above the law,” as Congressman Jamaal Bowman said in a statement.

In his opinion, the accusation of falsification of business books “is only the beginning of the responsibility for his crimes”; among them, “attempting to illegally overturn the results of the Georgia election and inciting a riot in the Capitol, both in an attempt to overthrow the government to advance their fascist cause.”

President of the Senate, Chuck Schumerhe appealed, according to Efe, to avoid political interference or intimidation in the case, and reminded that the former Republican president is subject to “the same laws as every American”, according to a statement from his office.

Democratic National Committee press secretary Ammar Moussa also criticized that no matter what happens in the upcoming legal proceedings, the party remains “under the control” of Trump and MAGA, the acronym for the “Make America Great Again” slogan that the former president used in his first election campaign and for which his followers are known.

“We will continue to hold Trump and all Republican candidates accountable for an extremist MAGA-leaning agenda that includes banning abortion, cutting Social Security and Medicare, and undermining free and fair elections,” he added in a statement.

A grand jury indicted Trump on Thursday for paying to silence porn actress Stormy Daniels during his 2016 presidential campaign. This is the first criminal indictment against a former US president.