A NYC court found former president Donald Trump guilty of 34 criminal counts and the Republicans immediately urged an appeal and donations to the campaign ramp up.
Many of Trump’s Republican allies responded to the guilty verdict with a resounding need for an appeal as fast as possible. Remarks from lawmakers included words like “travesty” and “injustice” to describe the sham trial in NYC.
House Speaker Mike Johnson called the verdict today a “shameful day in American history.” Meanwhile, “Democrats cheered as they convicted the leader of the opposing party on ridiculous charges. This was a purely political exercise, not a legal one.”
The House Majority Leader Steve Scalise issued a statement calling the decision in NYC a “banana republic” and Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan characterized the entire trial as a “kangaroo court,” claiming “the verdict is a travesty of justice.”
According to a former GOP presidential primary opponent, Vivek Ramaswamy, the guilty verdict in NYC “will backfire” on the Democrats and only further expose the ill intent to use lawfare as a way of winning elections.
However, many other Trump supporters viewed the verdict as a win. Podcaster Jack Posobiec stated “Trump just won the election.”
Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida wrote “If the defendant were not Donald Trump, this case would never have been brought, the judge would have never issued similar rulings, and the jury would have never returned a guilty verdict.”
Trump’s former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo wrote on X a statement echoing the sentiment of the Republican party. “The future of this country should — and will — be decided by the American people in an election, not by 12 New Yorkers in a travesty of a politicized courtroom.”