House Speaker Kevin McCarthy Denounces NY DA’s ‘Outrageous Abuse Of Power’ In Trump Porn Star Probe
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has labeled the case against Donald Trump over hush money paid to Stormy Daniels an “outrageous abuse of power” as senior Republicans reacted to the former president’s claim that he will be arrested within days.
McCarthy labeled Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, whose team is leading the investigation, as a “radical prosecutor who runs violent criminals while pursuing political revenge against President Trump.” Trump claims he will face charges on Tuesday and has urged Americans to protest the decision.
McCarthy said, “I am directing relevant committees to immediately investigate whether federal funds are being used to undermine our democracy by disrupting elections with politically motivated prosecutions.”
Rep. Elise Stefanik, the third House Republican, also issued a statement calling the possibility of charges against Trump “disgraceful.”
She said: “This is unAmerican and the radical left has reached a dangerous new low of third world countries. Knowing they cannot beat President Trump at the ballot box, the radical left will now follow the lead of socialist dictators and reportedly arrest President Trump.”
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Rep. Elise Stefanik, the third-rate House Republican, has sparked GOP anger over the possibility that Trump will be indicted in the Stormy Daniels case within days
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said he has ordered an investigation into whether ‘federal funds are being used to undermine our democracy’
Senator Lindsey Graham predicted on Saturday that charges against Trump will only help his presidential campaign.
“The New York Attorney General has done more to get Donald Trump elected president than any person in America,” Graham said at the Palmetto Family Council Vision ’24 presidential forum.
“I don’t think that’s the right approach,” Graham told DailyMail.com after his performance in North Charleston. “I think he should fight this in court. He’s going to win. This is an attempted overrun by the Attorney General of Manhattan.”
“I think it’s going to help him politically,” the South Carolina Republican repeated.
Trump would become the first former president in history to be charged with a felony 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, labeling it a political witch hunt designed to prevent his bid for re-election in 2024.
Mike Pence, Trump’s vice president but fiercely critical of Trump since he left the White House, said he was “like many Americans … baffled” by the news indictment that will be filed within days.
Pence told SiriusXM’s Breitbart News on Saturday, “You literally have a Democratic part that literally enters the criminal justice system.” [New York]undermining the NYPD, and this is what the Manhattan DA says is their top priority?
“It smacks of the kind of political persecution we experienced in the days of the Russian hoax.”
Mike Pence, who was vice president in the Trump White House, said the case “smacks of the kind of political persecution we had to endure in the days of the Russian hoax.”
Senator Lindsey Graham told DailyMail.com that the Daniels case was “an overreach by the Manhattan prosecutor,” adding, “I think it’s going to help [Trump] politics’
Rudy Giuliani, the former attorney for the Southern District of New York and Trump’s former personal attorney, said: “Bragg’s indictment of President Trump for an engineered crime is the final straw in Bragg’s destruction of the reputation of the major agency of the public prosecutor in the United States.
“Bought and paid for by your man who despises American nationalism, George Soros.”
A Trump spokesperson said: “There has been no report, other than illegal leaks from the Justice Department and the District Attorney’s office, to NBC and other fake news outlets, that the George Soros-funded radical left Democratic Attorney General in Manhattan has decided to take his witch hunt to the next level.
President Trump rightly emphasizes his innocence and the weaponization of our injustice system. He will be in Texas next weekend for a massive rally. Make America Great Again!’
Jonathan Turley, a criminal defense attorney and Shapiro Chair of Public Interest Law at George Washington University, said the case was “politically popular” but “legally pathetic.”
Trump could be charged with falsifying company records related to payments to his former attorney, Michael Cohen, who was serving jail time after pleading guilty to using campaign finance in connection with Daniels. The former president could also be charged with electoral law violations.
Turley told DailyMail.com, “I’m not confident that Bragg can bring this case under statute of limitations.
But if he can turn the federal indictment into a state case, he still faces significant challenges to a conviction. This is a notoriously difficult theory to prosecute, although this is the best jury pool a prosecutor can hope for.”
Trump, photographed on Jan. 6 shortly before the Capitol riots broke out, has called on his supporters to protest his impending impeachment
Trump’s call for demonstrations is similar to his rallying cry for protests against his loss in the 2020 presidential election, which he says were rigged. Pictured: Riot police push back a crowd of Trump supporters after they stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021
Federal prosecutors reportedly did not consider suing Trump for the payments while he was still in office because of Justice Department guidelines that a sitting president cannot be charged.
They reviewed the case after he left the White House, but chose not to press charges because the issue seemed “trivial and outdated” after the January 6 riots and investigations into Trump’s role in fueling them, a book by CNN legal analyst Elie Honig said.
Law enforcement officials are beefing up security around the New York County Supreme Court amid the expected criminal prosecution announcement.
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 bracing for demonstrations that could turn violent following Trump’s provocative call for Americans to “protest, protest, protest” as he ranted online about the lawsuit.
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