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Republicans say they will not tolerate a “witch hunt” against Trump


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A large number of officials from the Republican Party considered this Thursday that the impeachment of the former US president is a “witch hunt” and warned that the US population “will not tolerate it”

Trump supporters protest his impeachment.Rebecca BlackwellPA

A large number of positions in the Republican Party considered this Thursday that the imputation of the former US president donald trump (2017-2021) is a “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 to account,” said the speaker of the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy.

For the conservative lawmaker, the prosecutor “has irreparably damaged the country in an attempt to interfere in the presidential election.”

The senator Lindsey Graham, Trump’s ally and involved in another of the former president’s legal cases – that of the attempt to reverse the results of the 2020 presidential elections in the state of Georgia – also criticized the accusation.

Graham, who had a phone conversation with Trump after the news broke, said in an interview collected by The Washington Post that the former president told him that “they are using the law as a weapon”, something the senator agreed with.

However, distanced himself from the idea of ​​calling protests for the accusation, something that the former president himself did a little over a week ago when he announced that he expected to be arrested.

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The president of the Republican National Committee, Ronna McDaniel, He agreed that this is a politically motivated decision.

“When our justice system is used as a political tool it puts us all in danger. This is a flagrant abuse of power by a district attorney focused on political revenge instead of keeping people safe,” he said. On twitter.

For the conservative legislator Jim Jordan, president of the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives, what happened is simply “scandalous”, according to what he published on that same social network.

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

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

Who has not spoken at the moment to the news is the leader of the conservatives in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, The main figure in opposition to Trump within the Republican Party and a frequent object of criticism from the former president.

The Democrats, for their part, insisted that “no one is above the law,” as stated by Congressman Jamal Bowman.

Being accused of falsifying business records, in his opinion, “is only the beginning of accountability for his crimes”; among them, “attempting to illegally reverse the results of the elections in Georgia and inciting the insurrection of the Capitol, both in an effort to overthrow the Government to advance their fascist cause.”

The President of the Senate, Chuck Schumer, He called for political interference or intimidation to be avoided in the case, and recalled that the former Republican president is subject “to the same laws as any American,” according to a statement from his office.

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The press secretary of the Democratic National Committee, Ammar Moussa, He also criticized that no matter what happens in the next legal proceedings, the party remains “under the control” of Trump and the WIZARDan acronym for the slogan “Make America Great Again” (Make the United States great again) that the former president used in his first electoral campaign and with which his faithful are known.

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

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

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