House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has called the case against Donald Trump over silent money paid to Stormy Daniels an “outrageous abuse of power” as top Republicans hit back at the government’s claim. former president that he would be arrested within days.
McCarthy called Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, whose team is leading the investigation, “a radical prosecutor who lets violent criminals walk as he pursues political revenge against President Trump.” Trump says he will be charged on Tuesday and urged Americans to protest the decision.
McCarthy said, “I call on the appropriate committees to immediately investigate whether federal funds are being used to subvert our democracy by interfering in elections with politically motivated prosecutions.”
Representative Elise Stefanik, the third Republican in the House of Representatives, also released a statement calling the possibility of charges against Trump “shameful”.
She said: ‘It’s not American and the radical left has hit a dangerous new low in third world countries. Knowing that they cannot beat President Trump at the polls, the radical left will now follow the example of the socialist dictators and arrest President Trump.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Rep. Elise Stefanik, the third House Republican, have drawn GOP anger over the possibility of Trump being indicted in the Stormy Daniels case within days.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says he’s ordered an investigation into whether ‘federal funds are being used to subvert our democracy’
Senator Lindsey Graham predicted on Saturday that the charges against Trump will only help his presidential campaign.
“The New York prosecutor has done more to help Donald Trump get elected president than anyone in America,” Graham said at Saturday’s Palmetto Family Council Vision ’24 presidential forum.
“I don’t think that’s the right approach,” Graham told DailyMail.com after his North Charleston appearance. “I think what he should do is fight this in court. He will win. That’s an overstatement on the part of the Manhattan district attorney.
“I think it’s going to help him politically,” the South Carolina Republican reiterated.
Trump would become the first former president in history to be charged with a crime if prosecutors take the extraordinary step of indicting him. But some legal experts say the case is unlikely to succeed.
Trump and his supporters have opposed the investigation and called it a political witch hunt aimed at preventing his bid for re-election in 2024.
Mike Pence, who was Trump’s vice president but has been a vocal critic of Trump since leaving the White House, said he was ‘like many Americans…surprised’ by the news accusations that will be worn in a few days.
Pence told SiriusXM’s Breitbart News on Saturday: ‘You literally have a Democratic Party that literally dismantled the criminal justice system by [New York]undermine the NYPD, and that’s what the Manhattan DA says is their top priority?
“It smacks of the kind of political prosecution we faced during the days of the Russian hoax.”
Mike Pence, who was Trump’s White House vice president, said the case “reeks of the kind of political prosecution we faced during the days of the Russian hoax.”
Senator Lindsey Graham told DailyMail.com the Daniels case was “an overkill on the part of the Manhattan prosecutor” and added “I think that will help.” [Trump] politically’
Rudy Giuliani, a former attorney for the Southern District of New York and former personal attorney to Trump, said: ‘Bragg’s indictment of President Trump for a created crime is the final straw in Bragg’s destruction of the principal’s reputation. United States Attorney’s Office.
“Bought and paid for by your man who despises American nationalism, George Soros.”
A Trump spokesperson said: ‘There has been no notification, other than unlawful leaks from the Justice Department and the prosecutor’s office, to NBC and other bogus media, that the Democratic prosecutor of George Soros-funded radical leftist in Manhattan has decided to take its witch hunt to the next level.
“President Trump rightly points out his innocence and the weaponization of our system of injustice. He will be in Texas next weekend for a giant rally. Make America Great Again!”
Jonathan Turley, criminal defense attorney and Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University, said the case was “politically popular” but “legally pathetic.”
Trump could be charged with falsifying business records regarding payments to his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, who served time in prison after pleading guilty to using campaign finances in connection with Daniels. The former president could also face charges related to electoral law violations.
Turley told DailyMail.com: “I’m not convinced Bragg can bring this case under the statute of limitations.”
“However, if he can fit the federal charge into a state case, he still faces significant challenges to a conviction. It’s a notoriously difficult theory to prosecute, though it’s the best jury panel a prosecutor could hope for.
Trump, pictured on Jan. 6 shortly before the Capitol riots broke out, called on his supporters to protest his impending indictment
Trump’s call to demonstrate is similar to his rallying cry to protest his defeat in the 2020 presidential election, which he says was rigged. Pictured: Riot police fend off a crowd of Trump supporters after storming the Capitol building on January 6, 2021
Federal prosecutors reportedly did not consider indicting Trump for the payments while he was still in office due to Justice Department guidelines that a sitting president cannot be indicted.
They revisited the matter after he left the White House, but chose not to seek an indictment because the matter seemed ‘insignificant and outdated’ after the January 6 riots and scrutiny of the role of Trump in the fuss over this, a book by CNN legal analyst Elie Honig says.
Law enforcement officials are beefing up security around the New York County Supreme Court amid the expected announcement of criminal charges.
Prosecutors from the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office will meet today to discuss how to handle the announcement of Trump’s indictment and arrest.
Officials are also prepared for protests that could turn violent after Trump’s defiant call for Americans to “protest, protest, protest” as he raged online over the court case.
