Ex-prosecutors and historians warn that Republicans’ parroting of ex-president’s wild allegations of political bias could erode trust and lead to violence
Republican supporters of Donald Trump, including the House speaker, Mike Johnson, center, attend the ex-president’s hush-money trial in New York last month.Republican supporters of Donald Trump, including the House speaker, Mike Johnson, center, attend the ex-president’s hush-money trial in New York last month.
“What’s different here and very important is that in healthy democracies most mainstream politicians distance themselves from such attacks. The GOP has gotten to the point where most Republican leaders are echoing Trump’s charges of a rigged justice system.”“The denigration of judges, jurors and prosecutors by Trump is certainly a threat to the rule of law,” Ty Cobb, a former justice department official and White House counsel in the Trump years, told the Guardian.
Johnson, in a Fox & Friends appearance after Trump’s conviction, made the unusual suggestion that supreme court justices could be helpful in an appeal.“I do believe the supreme court should step in, obviously,” Johnson said. “I think that the justices on the court – I know many of them personally – I think they’re deeply concerned about that as we are.”
“The suggestion by Trump and his sycophants that the New York case is somehow attributable to Biden is absurd and would be laughable if not so demented and purposeful,” said Cobb. “The Biden administration had no involvement in the charging or presentation of the case and bears no responsibility for it whatsoever.
Congressman Jamie Raskin said the Republican reaction to Trump’s conviction was “an utterly cultish and tribalistic response to the ordinary working of the rule of law. They keep describing the verdict as rigged and fraudulent but can’t explain any element of the process that was actually in error. This is just an attack on the jury system.
Not to be outdone, Johnson at a 4 June press conference unveiled a “three-pronged approach” to attack Biden’s justice department. Johnson proposed taking on the Department of Justice using congressional oversight, appropriations and legislation.
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