Jordan is also the top Republican on the weaponisation subcommittee.Īs special counsel Jack Smith was preparing this week to release the indictment, Trump's allies on Capitol Hill were working overtime to prepare the defence of the former president.
In the days leading to the New York indictment, House Republicans laid out a full-on campaign against Alvin Bragg, the Democratic district attorney in Manhattan who brought the case against the former president.Ĭharging that the prosecution was “pure politics,” Jordan held a field hearing near Bragg's New York offices to examine what they said were his “pro-crime, anti-victim” policies. Key elements of the GOP strategy are to discredit the prosecutors and investigate the investigators - a playbook that Republicans employed during Trump's presidency as his own Justice Department probed his connections to Russia, and also used in April when Trump was charged in a hush money investigation in New York. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee. Recent Republicans rhetoric “not only undermines the Department of Justice but betrays the essential principle of justice that no one is above the commands of law, not even a former President or a self-proclaimed billionaire,” said Rep. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, both Democrats from New York, issued a joint statement on Friday urging calm around the Trump case, saying everyone should “let this case proceed peacefully in court.” “Eye for an eye.”ĭemocrats say the Republicans are trafficking in conspiracy theories, with potentially dangerous consequences.
“We have now reached a war phase,” he tweeted. “It's a sad day for America,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan of Ohio, a leading Trump defender and ally in the House, said in a statement on Thursday evening. Republican lawmakers in the House have already laid extensive groundwork for the effort to defend Trump since taking the majority in January.Ī near constant string of hearings featuring former FBI agents, Twitter executives and federal officials have sought to paint the narrative of a corrupt government using its powers against Trump and the right.Ī GOP-led House subcommittee on the “weaponisation” of government is probing the Justice Department and other government agencies, while at the same time Republicans are investigating Biden's son Hunter Biden. McCarthy called it a “grave injustice” and said that House Republicans “will hold this brazen weaponization of power accountable.”
McCarthy blamed Biden, who has declined to comment on the case and said he is not at all involved in the Justice Department's decisions. “Today is indeed a dark day for the United States of America,” tweeted House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, soon after Trump said on his social media platform on Thursday night that an indictment was coming.
GOP lawmakers are instead working, as they have for several years, to foster a broader argument that law enforcement - and President Joe Biden - are conspiring against the former president and possible Republican nominee for president in 2024. The Republican campaign to discredit federal prosecutors skims over the substance of those charges, which were brought by a grand jury in Florida. The evidence details Trump's own words and actions as recounted by lawyers, close aides and other witnesses.Īlso Read | Pakistan Budget 2023-24: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar Unveils Federal Budget for Fiscal Year 2023-24 With Total Outlay of Rs 14.5 Trillion.
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