Trump guilty: DeSantis and former 2024 GOP rivals denounce felony conviction

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Trump's former primary rivals came to his aid after the former president was found guilty in a hush money payment scheme trial.

primary rivals excoriated Thursday’s unprecedented news of the former president being found guilty of all 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels.“It is often said that no one is above the law, but it is also true that no one is below the law,” DeSantis posted in a lengthy statement on X, just minutes after the verdict was announced.

Today’s verdict represents the culmination of a legal process that has been bent to the political will of the actors involved: a leftist prosecutor, a partisan judge and a jury reflective of one of the most liberal enclaves in America—all in an effort to “get” Donald Trump.Ramaswamy then moved on to attack Judge Juan Merchan and his daughter, Loren Merchan, whom Trump had previously attacked.

It is not easy to see a former President and the presumptive GOP nominee convicted of felony crimes; but the jury verdict should be respected. An appeal is in order but let’s not diminish the significance of this verdict.Former Vice President Mike Pence and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, two of Trump’s biggest detractors, have not yet weighed in on the verdict.

Neither has Sen. Tim Scott , another rumored running mate for Trump. But hours before the verdict was announced, he posted on X: “The only verdict that matters is the one at the ballot box.”

 

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