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Donald Trump’s political allies were visibly upset after a jury convicted the former president on 34 counts of falsifying business records. Rep. Jim Jordan, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, called the verdict “a travesty of justice.” Jordan was one of Trump’s biggest supporters during his two impeachments.
“The Manhattan kangaroo court shows what happens when our justice system is weaponized by partisan prosecutors in front of a biased judge with an unfair process, designed to keep President Trump off the campaign trail and avoid bringing attention to President Biden’s failing radical policies,” Jordan said in a statement.
“This was a purely political exercise, not a legal one,” House Speaker Mike Johnson posted online only moments after the jury made its decision public.
“The weaponization of our justice system has been a hallmark of the Biden Administration, and the decision today is further evidence that Democrats will stop at nothing to silence dissent and crush their political opponents,” wrote Johnson, who early in the proceedings traveled to New York to support Trump.
Speaking to reporters after the verdict, Trump said what he’s been saying all along, claiming that the trial was “rigged” against him and the judge had been unfair. He also said President Joe Biden was behind the prosecution.
Kari Lake, a U.S. Senate candidate in Arizona who became one of Trump’s biggest cheerleaders during her failed gubernatorial campaign two years ago, called Trump’s trial “a shameful political stunt.”
“This conviction should be immediately reversed upon appeal, and this legal tyranny will be summarily rejected by the American people on November 5th,” Lake said.
