Donald Trump’s 2024 GOP primary opponents have come out in response to the former president reportedly being indicted on federal charges.
Trump got ahead of the reports on June 8 and said he was informed by his lawyers that the Department of Justice had indicted him in the case of the former president allegedly mishandling classified information and not cooperating with the federal government in returning the materials.
The charges, according to ABC News, are “willful retention of national defense information, corruptly concealing [documents], conspiracy to obstruct justice, [and] false statements.”
Trump’s super PAC, MAGA Inc., blasted the reported indictment.
“The Biden regime, which is realizing they can’t beat or cheat their way to another victory, has taken the unprecedented step to indict President Trump amid reports that the Biden family accepted $10 million in illegal bribes from foreign nationals,” said MAGA Inc. spokesperson Karoline Leavitt. “America is a nation that has become plagued by a two-tier system of justice that must be confronted and destroyed. This will only be done when we reelect President Donald J. Trump.”
Trump’s GOP opponents expressed outrage over the reported indictment.
“The weaponization of federal law enforcement represents a mortal threat to a free society,” Florida Governor Ron DeSantis wrote on Twitter.
“We have for years witnessed an uneven application of the law depending upon political affiliation. Why so zealous in pursuing Trump yet so passive about Hillary or Hunter?”
Meanwhile, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy wrote in a Twitter post that: “I never thought we’d see the day when the U.S. President deputizes the DOJ to arrest his lead rival in the middle of an election.”
“This is an affront to every citizen: we cannot devolve into a banana republic where the party in power uses police force to arrest its political opponents,” he added. “It’s hypocritical for the DOJ to selectively prosecute Trump but not Biden.”
Ramaswamy explained that “it would be much easier for me to win this election if Trump weren’t in the race, but I stand for principles over politics” and, if elected, he would “pardon Trump promptly on January 20, 2025, and restore the rule of law in our country.”
Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson reiterated his call for Trump to end his comeback bid for the White House.
“With the news that Donald Trump has been indicted for the second time, our country finds itself in a position that weakens our democracy,” he said in a statement.
“Donald Trump’s actions—from his willful disregard for the Constitution to his disrespect for the rule of law—should not define our nation or the Republican Party,” continued Hutchinson. “This is a sad day for our country. While Donald Trump is entitled to the presumption of innocence, the ongoing criminal proceedings will be a major distraction. This reaffirms the need for Donald Trump to respect the office and end his campaign.”
Businessman Perry Johnson said he would pardon Trump.
“I was the first candidate to call for @JoeBiden to #PardonTrump so the country can move on to the important issues facing the country like $32 trillion in debt, a broken border, and a war in Ukraine. I stand by it. Pardon Trump now!” he posted on Twitter.
Conservative commentator Larry Elder decried America’s justice system.
“More partisan prosecution! Hillary violates the Espionage Act—yet skates. FBI/DOJ whistleblowers tell of 2-tiered justice. FBI informant doc claims Joe & Hunter got $10mil in bribes. O.J. Simpson will catch the killer or killers of Ron and Nicole before the Hunter probe is over,” he posted on Twitter.
they will never stop until trump is dead.
and then they will come for all of us.
They are doing both at the same time…
“ Why so zealous in pursuing Trump yet so passive about Hillary or Hunter?”,,,,,because too many establishment owned Republicans were afraid to risk or mutually pledge to each other their “Lives, their Fortunes and their sacred Honor” to reflect the precedents set by our liberty gifting Founding Fathers. They refused to hang together while the party and THE PEOPLE hung separately, leaving non-establishment guys like Trump to swing in the wind. The boldness of the Obama/Biden/Hillary planted FBI, CIA, Justice department back stabbing crime coverers has blossomed to the point that even the most timid Conservative is now aware of the national dangers that have come upon the most basic rights of THE PEOPLE to speak, act, live free and vote honestly. Evil prevailed because the good men stayed silent, lest the ship of state, and the state of their power and fortunes got rocked, now to the point of sinking altogether. Even many deluded Democrats are awakening to this fact. The proof will be in the pudding of the next election. Chocolate may not be the answer this time either, just real men with skin in the game.
BECAUES Our dept of Just US, is in the leftists bag.. SO OF COURSE they won’t “Bite the hands that feed them”!
Why so zealous in pursuing Trump yet so passive about Hillary or Hunter?”
Why so zealous in pursuing Trump with orchestrate and fabricated lies and accusations, like the Democrat Party has been doing even before Donald Trump was elected president.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi admitted an unfortunate truth about her
orchestrate and fabricated President Trump’s impeachment “farce”
– It hinges on witness’s “allegations” not “proof”.
It’s Not A Question” Of “Proof”, It’s About “Allegations”
https://youtu.be/7dzhIxeF204
Why are Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, Adam Schiff, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton not even charged with their proven crimes???
Where is the worthless Republican Party ?!? Shut down congress, hold a damn news conference on the step of the house and call out the Lies and treason of the Brandon Crime Family. Stop hiding cowards and speak up or resign.
THEY ARE the cowards though.
It is clear that the Democratic Party is one step away from starting a second Civil War. The DOJ seems more like a pied pipers follower than a valid officer of the Constitution, a lacky following his parties sick mantras. I guess that is why the dnc chose South Carolina as their primary election start off site…the same State that started the Civil War. Will we see the administration imitating the British when the revolutionary constitution believers won? Would any Country let them in?
People have been claimng “we are on the verge of a 2nd civil war” for years now. I STILL DON’T think the’re enough guts on the right, to kick it off.
Mark Levin’s take on this is the best. There is no way this kind of corruption can be taking place if we had an honest media. There have always been crooks and self dealers in both the elected representatives and especially in the deep state. The difference now is the vast majority of the national media and much of America’s corporations are complicit in supporting the leftist agenda regardless of the depths it reaches in promoting itself. Much of the American population are mushrooms, confined to the darkness and fed manure every day.
So when will Biden be.Indicted?? If not then the world will know.is just political. Selective prosecution, I thought was illegal.
SINCE when have the totaltarians in govt, CARED WHETHER WHAT THEY DO is illegal, OR SEEN BY the rest of the world as such>>