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Republicans, including former Vice President Mike Pence, rallied around former President Donald Trump on Sunday, blasting his potential prosecution by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office as a politically motivated attack against a 2024 Democratic rival.
“It just feels like a politically charged prosecution here. And I, for my part, I just feel like it’s just not what the American people want to see,” Pence ’ “This Week” in an interview that aired Sunday.
“The fact that the Manhattan DA thinks that indicting President Trump is his top priority, I think … just tells you everything you need to know about the radical left in this country,” Pence, who has had a falling out with Trump, 76, after the Jan. 6, 2021, US Capitol riot, told host Jonathan Karl.
Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) said the possible arrest of Trump over an alleged $130,000 hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election is ”one of the worst uses of the justice system we have ever seen.”
”This kind of two-tier prosecution, this gotcha mentality with the criminal justice system is flat-out wrong,” he told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo on “Sunday Morning Futures.”
”And, Maria, let me also say this. There have been in the past uses of the criminal justice system in America that have been wrong. It’s been about targeting. It’s been wrong. Two wrongs don’t make a right,” Donalds said, without elaborating.
“Just going after your political adversary in President Trump isn’t going to make you some pillar of virtue. It’s going to descend all of America into further chaos, not what we need — not what we need at all,” he said.
As reports in the media circulated last week that Trump was expected to be indicted in Manhattan over the alleged hush money payment, the former president tore the lid off the speculation and posted on his Truth Social platform that he would be arrested on Tuesday and urged his legion of loyalists to “protest.
