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The members of the Congress reacted quickly after the news that the former president donald trump has been charged with federal crimes related to the investigation of classified government documents that were found at his residence in sea-a-lake, in Florida, even after their lawyers ensured they had been turned over.
The comments largely fell along party lines.with Republicans denouncing the investigation of the documents classified as political manipulation and Democrats criticizing the GOP presidential candidate for the 2024 election.
The Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, rejected the legal action. “Both I and all Americans who believe in the rule of law stand with President Trump in the face of this grave injustice,” said the Republican leader of Congress, in his statement on Twitter.
McCarthy also indicated that members of his party in the House will hold the government “accountable” for what he described as a “blatant instrumentalization of justice.”
California Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, A senior member of the powerful House Judiciary Committee, he was quick to respond to McCarthy’s comments. “Kevin McCarthy is threatening to use Congress to interfere in the federal prosecution of Donald Trump. I will do everything he can on the Judiciary Committee to resist that,” Schiff tweeted. “Trump has a lot of criminal defense lawyers. That’s not the job of Congress.”
Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida and Trump’s rival in the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, also expressed his support for the former president: “We have witnessed for years how justice is applied unequally, depending on political affiliation,” the politician wrote in your Twitter account.
Among congressional Republicans, several of the strongest pro-Trump voices were quick to reject the accusation. House Judiciary Committee members Jim Jordan and Andy Biggs defended Trump.
Jordan, who represents the state of Ohio, He wrote on his Twitter account that today was a “sad day” for the US, while Biggs went further and called for the FBI to be “dismantled.”
Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, one of Trump’s most ardent supporters, called the Justice Department and the FBI “corrupt.”
Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin, who served on the panel in the Trump impeachment trial and was a member of the January 6 committee, he warned Republicans against what he called the “dangerous rhetoric about a ‘two-tier justice system.’”
“Instead of trying to divide the country and undermine our legal system, Republicans in Congress should respect the outcome of the special counsel’s exhaustive investigation and the decisions of the citizens serving on the grand jury,” Raskin said in a statement.
Trump charged with federal crimes
Trump is being charged in a Miami court with seven federal crimes, including illegal withholding of government secrets, obstruction of justice and conspiracy, handling of classified government documents, after he left the Presidency.
The former president noted on his social networks that he has been summoned to appear in Miami Federal Court next Tuesday at 3:00 pm local time.
The court document has not yet been officially released and the Justice Department declined to comment on the case.
In a video posted on Truth Social, Trump directly criticized the Department of Justice and maintained that it is “innocent.”
This is the second time that Trump has faced criminal charges and is also the first president in the history of the country to be charged with crimes.
In April this year, the Republican was charged by a New York court with 34 counts in connection with payments made to porn actress Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential campaign.
The indictment released Thursday is part of the investigation, led by special counsel Jack Smith, into Trump’s handling of hundreds of classified documents found by the FBI at his Florida mansion.
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