House Speaker Mike Johnson accused the Department of Justice on Tuesday of being weaponized against former President Donald Trump, and promised that details for his plan to reel in special counsel Jack Smith would be coming soon.
U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson speaks at a press conference across the street from the Manhattan criminal court in New York on Tuesday, May 14, 2024. **FILE**on Wednesday of being weaponized against former President Donald Trump, and promised that details for his plan to reel in special counsel
Mr. Johnson’s sentiment comes after a stop in New York Tuesday to defend the former president in the midst of his hush money trial, where he vowed to investigate the prosecutors involved in the case., under the direction of Attorney General Merrick Garland, has used the legal system to go after the political opponents of President Biden.
“I think that they have used our system of justice against political opponents, of course the most prominent of which is Donald J. Trump,” Mr. He argued that the ongoing trial in Manhattan was over something “not even easily defined as a crime.” Mr. Trump has been charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records in order to stamp out lurid claims of his sex life. Mr.said. “Now they’ve done so. Why? Because Trump is running for president again, this is repeated across the system.
“We haven’t yet come to a consensus on what that really looks like, but we are actively discussing that even today among members,” Mr.Trump attorney Will Scharf joins Court Watch
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