Rep. Burgess Owens officially endorsed former President Donald Trump in his bid for reelection on Thursday.
Owens said he chose to make his endorsement public now as a way to draw attention to and protest what he sees as the unfair application of the law.
Trump has been charged with 91 felony counts related to four criminal cases in recent months. Two separate cases — one federal case, one case in Georgia — involve his alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election. A second federal indictment stems from the former president's alleged mishandling of classified documents. And another state indictment charges Trump with falsifying business records. He has denied wrongdoing in each case.
"Growing up in the '60s, I know what it is to have a government that is weaponized against a people, a person, a race. In the Jim Crow South, I saw what it was to have personal liberty and civil rights being stripped away because the government had the power," Owens said. "One of the first freedoms we have, which is freedom of speech, freedom to express ourselves, our doubts, our concerns, that all of a sudden that's being criminalized.
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