As America reacted to Tuesday’s historic arraignment of former President Donald Trump, many Republicans defended Trump by calling the criminal charges against him a witch hunt, writes columnist Ted Slowik.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump appears in court at the Manhattan Criminal Court in New York on Tuesday.Back in the 1960s, fears of a radical left helped propel Richard Nixon to the White House. Liberals had no chance at holding political power once Eisenhower Republicans saw violence erupt at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
That sets up a scenario where Trump could simultaneously appear in court during a criminal trial while campaigning for president. This is surreal because no one in their wildest dreams ever imagined that the public would elevate a criminal defendant to presidential nominee of a major political party.
I posed the questions to Sean Morrison of Palos Park, a Cook County Board member and chair of the Cook County Republican Party, and state Rep. Tim Ozinga of Mokena, chair of the Will County Republican Central Committee. Neither offered an immediate response. Trump and other Republicans are seizing the moment of the former president’s criminal indictment to ask supporters for money, the writer noted.
There’s the grand jury in Georgia investigating whether Trump committed crimes by interfering with that state’s 2020 presidential election. A special counsel appointed by the Department of Justice is investigating whether Trump broke the law by taking classified documents with him to his Florida estate and lying about it.For now, it appears the 25% of the American electorate that identifies as Republican has no choice but to ride the Trump train.
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