Kevin McCarthy and MAGA Republicans rally around Trump ahead of possible indictment
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and several MAGA Republicans rallied around Donald Trump on Saturday ahead of the former president's possible indictment by a Manhattan grand jury.
Trump, in posts to his social media platform Truth Social, predicted that he would be arrested Tuesday and called on supporters to protest, citing "illegal leaks." Hours later, a spokesperson for Trump clarified in a statement that the post was shared without any notification of an indictment beyond media reports by NBC News and other news outlets.
“Here we go again — an outrageous abuse of power by a radical DA who lets violent criminals walk as he pursues political vengeance against President Trump,” McCarthy wrote in a tweet .
"I’m directing relevant committees to immediately investigate if federal funds are being used to subvert our democracy by interfering in elections with politically motivated prosecutions," McCarthy added.
Despite his recent strong comments slamming Trump over Jan. 6, former Vice President Mike Pence, who's nearing a decision on a 2024 presidential bid , said the potential indictment “reeks of the kind of political prosecution that we endured back in the days of the Russia hoax.”
“This is what the Manhattan DA says is their top priority?” Pence said Saturday on SiriusXM radio.
Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, the third-ranking Republican in the House, called Trump's possible arrest "unAmerican" and said Democrats have reached "a dangerous new low."
"Knowing they cannot beat President Trump at the ballot box, the Radical Left will now follow the lead of Socialist dictators and reportedly arrest President Trump," she said in a statement shared to Twitter, calling him the leading Republican candidate.
Speaking at a conservative forum Saturday, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., downplayed the Manhattan district attorney’s case and said he thinks prosecutors are "afraid" of Trump.
“The prosecutor in New York has done more to help Donald Trump get elected president than any single person in America today," Graham said.
He added: “If I were President Trump I’d take this all the way to the damn Supreme Court."
Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona tweeted , “If they can come for Trump, they will come for you. This type of stuff only occurs in third world authoritarian nations.”
“Virtually every campaign finance violation involves either 1) spending other people’s money illegally or 2) taking money into your campaign that you shouldn’t. Trump did neither,” tweeted Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida. “He used his own money to resolve a private dispute, irrespective of any campaign.”
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia characterized the allegations against Trump as “fake” and “outdated.” She tweeted, “Republicans in Congress MUST subpoena these communists and END this!"
She wrote in another tweet that "we don't need to protest," adding: "These idiots are sealing their own fate in 2024 because the silent majority has two feelings right now about the current regime."God Bless President Trump. Real America knows this is all a sham.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio., wrote , "God Bless President Trump. Real America knows this is all a sham."
Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio, another Trump ally who has advanced his baseless theories of a stolen 2020 election, criticized Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, saying he "will prosecute" Trump while "violent criminals" roam New York City.
While the timing is currently unclear, the former president could soon face possible charges in the state related to a hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels.
NBC News reported Friday that local, state and federal enforcement agencies are gearing up for the possible indictment as early as next week.
Trump's former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen is a key witness in the case. He testified before the grand jury this week, after he pleaded guilty in 2018 to making an illegal payment to Daniels at Trump's direction for the "principal purpose" of swaying the 2016 election.
Trump said he repaid Cohan the $130,000 but insisted that what he did was legal. The former president has denied any wrongdoing.
A spokesperson for Bragg’s office declined to comment on Trump’s Truth Social posts.
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The unhinged right is nothing if not predictable. In order to preserve his chance to win the 2016 election, Trump paid off a porn star he had sex with while his wife was home with an infant. Now the party of "family values" wants to say "who cares"?
These people are an embarrassment (to say the least) to our country.
What do the Dems really care about? By their actions it seems to be.....
They care more about immigrants over citizens, criminals over victims, trans "girls" over biological women, stirring up racial hatreds over getting along with other, evil over good, etc.
The leftists are the real embarrassment nationally and globally.
Only sick bastards would defend Donald Trump.
You want to criticize something about Democrats? Fine, give it your best shot.
But dont defend Trump.
These Republican assholes are defending Trump.
For the millionth time, no one is defending Trump.
What everyone with a millimeter of brain cell matter (leaving out most liberals) is saying is this is obvious a political ploy for 2 reasons.
Keep Trump from running again, and,
Deflecting from the mass corruption that has started to come out about the Biden crime family.
Sounds about right.
Look where the sanctuary cities are located and which party runs them.
Look at blue cities--especially the ones with Soros-backed DAs, who mostly seem to favor criminals over law-abiding citizens.
Look at the proliferation of pronouns to describe biological men and women.
Your PD&D is tiresome.
I had always thought that one of the things Americans are so proud about is that NO PERSON IS ABOVE THE LAW, and that INCLUDES Presidents and former Presidents of the USA. What those crybaby Republicans referred to in the seed should be pulling for is that Trump's incarceration should be restricted to his Mar a Lago home and golf course instead of being lodged with the general convict population, and that's only because it is humiliating for the USA that a former POTUS should be a convicted criminal.
I'm sure America doesn't want to be the laughing stock of the world, so you really don't want Trump to be photographed while he's at work, eh?
The Trumpists are reaching a new level of stupidity. Despite all of the Trumpists' protestations and propaganda, the vast majority of the American people want to see the law enforced and justice done. No one with more than half a brain will fall for any of the Trumpist idiocy.
I want to know what the hell is taking so long when it comes to consequences for attempting a coup. Not to discount this possible campaign finance indictment, but it is not the main event. He should have been arrested two years ago for a much bigger crime.
Maybe the Biden Justice Dept. is just too incompetent to make a case?
No doubt, trying to subvert our government and steal the presidency for another term is his biggest crime.
You could have stopped here.
I stand corrected, good sir!
They obey the Republican Party first commandment -"thou shall not take the name of thy lord and god Donald Trump in vain".
Further proof that most right wing reactionaries (the so-called "conservatives"), including many that blather their stupidity on here on a daily basis, even, as is quite evident, on this seed, were born without brains.
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Even David frum and David French, two of the most crazed anti trump pundits out there, think indicting him over a zombie misdemeanor that’s been out there for six years is a mistake.
Destroying norms matter and setting the precedent than local district attorneys are free to weaponize the law for partisan purposes is a major escalation. What happens to trump is irrelevant, but the calls for retaliation and pay back won’t be district attorneys across the country are pushed to arrest democratic politicians for whatever technical violation of a law they can cobble together.
If Trump is indicted in Georgia his supporters will cry "witch hunt". If Trump is indicted over his plot to steal the election in Congress his supporters will cry "witch hunt". If Trump is indicted for obstruction of justice regarding the classified documents he didnt want to return to the government his supporters will cry "witch hunt". To his supporters he is above the law. This has been crystal clear for a long time "I could shoot someone in the middle of 5th avenue"....
Republicans and conservatives literally refuse to do what needs to be done , telling Donald Trump to go to hell.
We live in a degraded nation.
Frum and French are both arch conservatives!
And joe Biden is the son of coal miners!
Frum and French are both conservatives!