WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s most fervent Capitol Hill allies erupted in fury Thursday night time as information of his indictment rocked the nation. They rushed to his protection and blasted New York County District Lawyer Alvin Bragg’s prosecution of the GOP presidential front-runner as a political witch hunt designed to affect the 2024 election.
“Outrageous,” tweeted Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, who’s utilizing his roles as chairman of the Judiciary and Weaponization of the Federal Authorities committees to research Bragg’s work.
Home Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., whom Trump endorsed in his bid for speaker, wrote that Bragg “has irreparably broken our nation in an try and intrude in our Presidential election” and “weaponized our sacred system of justice in opposition to President Donald Trump.”
McCarthy additionally nodded to the GOP-controlled Home committees probing Bragg’s prosecution of Trump: “The American folks is not going to tolerate this injustice, and the Home of Representatives will maintain Alvin Bragg and his unprecedented abuse of energy to account.”
Jordan, in addition to Home Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., and Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil, R-Wis., despatched a letter this month asking Bragg to testify earlier than Congress about his investigation into hush cash funds Trump made to grownup movie star Stormy Daniels.
Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, Trump’s former White Home doctor, tweeted: “Alvin Bragg is a NATIONAL EMBARRASSMENT to our justice system. President Trump has been confirmed to have executed NO flawed. That is nothing greater than a political stunt to stop Trump from turning into President in 2024! WITCH HUNT!”
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., who was getting ready to ship a Lincoln Day tackle in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on Thursday night time, tweeted, “The irony of standing on the battleground once I came upon President Trump has been indicted is profound.”
Greene mentioned Trump was harmless and “the one one standing in the way in which of those modern-day tyrants, identical to our founding fathers did, to guard every of us from evil.”
“Impeach Biden,” she continued. “He’s given us each cause and the household banking data and extra are giving us receipts. However now that the gloves are off. Prosecute any and all crimes. Sufficient of this witch hunt bullshit.”
On the opposite facet of the Capitol, a onetime Trump presidential rival, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, tweeted: “The Democrat Get together’s hatred for Donald Trump is aware of no bounds.”
“The ‘substance’ of this political persecution is utter rubbish,” mentioned Cruz, a former Texas solicitor normal. “That is fully unprecedented and is a catastrophic escalation within the weaponization of the justice system.”
