Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) called out the possible indictment of former President Donald Trump as a part of the “gotcha mentality” in the current legal system.
“I think this is one of the worst uses of the justice system we’ve ever seen. This kind of two-tier prosecution, this gotcha mentality with the criminal justice system, is flat out wrong,” the Florida congressman said on Sunday.
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In a Saturday morning post on his social media platform Truth Social, former President Donald Trump predicted that he was going to be arrested on Tuesday and called the Manhattan District Attorney’s office “corrupt and highly political.”
His statement came following several reports that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is preparing to indict him on charges related to the investigation into alleged hush-money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016.
“There has been in the past uses of the criminal justice system in America that have been wrong. It’s been about targeting, it’s been wrong. Two wrongs don’t make a right,” Donalds told host Maria Bartiromo.
The Florida Republican predicted that an indictment would “descend all of America into further chaos.”
“Not what we need at all,” he said. “What Alvin Bragg is doing is wrong. He shouldn’t be going after Donald Trump, period.”
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Twitter executive Elon Musk predicted on Saturday morning that if the former president were to be indicted, he would win the election in a “landslide” in 2024.
Legal experts, including constitutional attorney Jonathan Turley, analyzed that Bragg has “a number of flaws” in his case against Trump and predicted that if he were convicted, there would be “significant appellate challenges and reviews.”
