House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is defending former President and 2024 candidate Donald Trump in the wake of the Manhattan grand jury indictment by DA Alvin Bragg regarding alleged hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels.
“Alvin Bragg has irreparably damaged our country in an attempt to interfere in our Presidential election,” McCarthy said on Twitter. “As he routinely frees violent criminals to terrorize the public, he weaponized our sacred system of justice against President Donald Trump. The American people will not tolerate this injustice, and the House of Representatives will hold Alvin Bragg and his unprecedented abuse of power to account.”
Alvin Bragg has irreparably damaged our country in an attempt to interfere in our Presidential election.
As he routinely frees violent criminals to terrorize the public, he weaponized our sacred system of justice against President Donald Trump.
The American people will not…
— Kevin McCarthy (@SpeakerMcCarthy) March 30, 2023
Another prominent Republican voice Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) blasted Bragg and came to Trump’s defense.
“The Democrat Party’s hatred for Donald Trump knows no bounds.” Cruz said in a Tweet.
The Democrat Party’s hatred for Donald Trump knows no bounds. The “substance” of this political persecution is utter garbage.
This is completely unprecedented and is a catastrophic escalation in the weaponization of the justice system.
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) March 30, 2023
On his podcast earlier in March, Cruz predicted that arresting Trump would only boost the former president’s appeal among supporters.
“This is Political Persecution and Election Interference at the highest level in history. From the time I came down the golden escalator at Trump Tower, and even before I was sworn in as your President of the United States, the Radical Left Democrats … have been engaged in a Witch-Hunt to destroy the Make America Great Again movement,” Trump said in a statement.
Even Trump’s former Vice President Mike Pence told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that the indictment is an “outrage.”
Pence: Well I think the unprecedented indictment of a former president of the United States on a campaign finance issue is an outrage. pic.twitter.com/mDuAM75SMd
— Acyn (@Acyn) March 31, 2023
Trump’s 2024 opponent Nikki Haley also spoke out in defense of Forty-Five, saying that Bragg is obviously out for revenge —not justice.
“From everything I have seen from this New York district attorney is that this would be something he’d be doing for political points. I think what we know is, when you get into political prosecutions like this, it’s more about revenge than it is about justice.”
Many Republicans have tied the indictment to billionaire George Soros, who has made political donations to Democratic candidates and causes.
The New York Times last week reported that connections between Soros and Bragg “are real but overstated.” The newspaper said Soros donated to a liberal group that financially supported Bragg’s campaign.
“A spokesman for Mr. Soros said that the two men had never met, nor had Mr. Soros given money directly to Mr. Bragg’s campaign,” according to the New York Times.
But the Washington Post confirmed in 2019 the Soros was pumping money into Bragg’s race. Maybe he should read his own paper sometime?
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— Omri Ceren (@omriceren) April 1, 2023
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