At the annual House GOP issues retreat, Speaker McCarthy has faced a barrage of questions from reporters about former President Trump’s possible indictment.
But now, it seems, Republicans have fallen back into the same pattern they found themselves in during the four-year Trump presidency: trying to focus on important policy issues likethat New York law enforcement agencies were preparing for a potential Trump indictment as soon as this week spurred Trump to lash out on his social media platform Truth Social, calling on supporters to “protest” and “take back the...
“We don’t think President Trump broke the law at all, but what concerns me is what they’re going to do based on what’s been reported," Jordan added.At the bilingual English-Spanish news conference, Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., blasted Bragg as a “rogue, left-wing, radical prosecutor who, by the way, refuses to prosecute serious crimes in [New York] who now has decided for political reasons to go after a former president.
“I have great respect for the former president of the United States, but … I will tell you right now, the leader of the party is the speaker of the House, the highest-ranking elected, second in line to the presidency," ” the Miami area congressman said.
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