An act worthy of the "third world", his son was indignant. An "abuse of power", launched the leader of the Republican Party. Donald Trump's family, allies and even right-wing rivals denounced Thursday the indictment of the former president, assuring that it was a question of preventing him from resuming his quarters in the White House in 2024.
"Let's be clear guys. It's a communist thing. It's something that would make Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot blush," his eldest son Donald Trump Jr. stormed on his streaming show. "I think we are in the midst of a battle for the future of our country. For our very existence,” he added, lambasting the prosecutor behind the indictment as a “corrupt leftist.”
On Twitter, he added that his father's opponents "were instrumentalizing authorities to interfere in the 2024 election to stop Trump." "The only solution is... to hand it over to the White House!" ! “, he wrote. This indictment is "worthy of the Third World", "an opportunistic act aimed at a political opponent in the middle of an election campaign", added his brother Eric Trump in a tweet.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Donald Trump's main Republican rival - although he has not yet officially declared himself the 2024 presidential candidate - denounced the indictment as "contrary to the values of America". . As for Mike Pompeo, also tipped for 2024, he judged that by deciding to indict a former president, prosecutor Alvin Bragg "undermined America's confidence in our judicial system".
For Donald Trump's former vice president, Mike Pence, "it's a shame!" "This will only serve to further divide our country," said CNN, who also flirts with the idea of a candidacy in 2024.
Republican Party Leader Ronna McDaniel tweeted that the indictment was "a gross abuse of power by a prosecutor focused on political revenge instead of keeping the people safe." "Meanwhile, New York City, where Alvin Bragg serves as Manhattan District Attorney, hit a new high for crimes last year," the official Republican Party Twitter account said.
The decision to indict Trump has "damaged our country beyond repair," Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said. "The American people will not tolerate this injustice," the Republican tenor assured on Twitter. "Scandalous", for his part dropped the influential elected official Jim Jordan in a terse tweet.
It is "a dark day for America", lamented the elected Elise Stefanik, criticizing the prosecutor, described as "socialist". "Tens of millions of patriotic Americans have never been more mobilized to exercise their constitutional rights to peacefully organize and VOTE to save our great republic by electing President Donald Trump in 2024," she said. in a press release.
