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Here’s How Every 2024 GOP Candidate Responded To Trump’s DOJ Indictment

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The field of Republican presidential candidates rushed to issue statements following Thursday night’s indictment of former President Donald Trump. While the majority rebuked what they claimed is a politicized justice system, some of Trump’s rivals couldn’t stop themselves from throwing barbs in their statements.

In the hours following a sudden indictment of Trump by the Biden Department of Justice (DOJ), Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and his rivals polling in the single-digits largely agreed that Trump is being unfairly targeted and deserves the presumption of innocence. One candidate, former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, reiterated his call for Trump to drop out.

DeSantis, writing the charges against Trump represent a “mortal threat to a free society,” wrote a salivating response that promised to vanquish an “uneven application of the law” by both sides. The Florida governor is the closest rival to Trump in the polls but remains dozens of points behind in most states.

Chris Christie, the former New Jersey governor and Trump confidant who launched his campaign earlier this week, chided Trump for trying to break the news via his Truth Social account. “[N]o one is above the law, no matter how much they wish they were,” he wrote.

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U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) took to Fox News decrying a justice system “where the scales are weighted.”

“As President of the United States, I would purge all of the injustices and impurities in our system so that every American can have confidence that they will be seen by the Lady of Justice with a blindfold on. That is what we need in this nation,” Scott said.

Tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who has barnstormed early states and fashioned himself as a scrappy underdog in the race, kept his comments focused on the Biden administration’s prosecution against the president’s leading rival.

“We have two standards of justice: one for BLM rioters and Antifa, another one for peaceful January 6th protestors. One for Chelsea Manning, another one for Julian Assange. Guess what? Now you have one for Joe Biden, who violates the same laws about document retention, and classified documents, and one for President Trump,” Ramaswamy said.

Former Vice President Mike Pence, on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show, called on Attorney General Merrick Garland to hold a press conference and explain his reasoning for bringing charges against Trump directly to the American people.

While the field may largely be rallying around the former Republican president, the bonhomie is sure to dissipate as the Republican National Committee’s first debate nears in August. As part of making the stage, all participants must agree to support the party’s eventual nominee.



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