Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) denounced the prosecution of President Trump by Manhattan District Legal professional Alvin Bragg over the alleged 2016 Stormy Daniels hush cash cost association as “Third World Banana Republic lunacy”. Schmitt made the remark in a Twitter thread on Saturday. Schmitt beforehand served as Missouri legal professional basic earlier than being elected to the U.S. Senate final November.
Eric Schmitt at victory celebration, November 8, 2022, file display picture
Schmitt endorsed Trump for president in 2024 final month.
Schmitt’s assertion (click on tweet to see total thread on Twitter):
Leftists in the USA are more and more weaponizing investigations to persecute and prosecute political opponents. It should finish.
— Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) March 18, 2023
The reported upcoming arrest of President Trump by hyper partisan Soros prosecutor Alvin Bragg is a few Third World Banana Republic lunacy and a really, very harmful highway to go down.
Leftists in the USA are more and more weaponizing investigations to persecute and prosecute political opponents. It should finish.
The left’s conduct is much like the conduct you discover in a banana republic the place the authoritarian state punishes its political enemies with felony prosecutions searching for crimes.
It’s antithetical to America’s founding which rejected the concept and observe of these in energy punishing political opponents for imprecise and ambiguous “crimes in opposition to the state.” As a substitute, the Founders selected to create a rustic of legal guidelines, not of males.
Justice is meant to be blind – there’s a purpose Woman Justice wears a blindfold as a substitute of a political jersey. Prosecutors have a particular accountability to stick to the rule of legislation.
Trump Derangement Syndrome doesn’t present authorized cowl. The general public rightfully expects prosecutors to hold out our obligations with out political prejudice. Indictments, investigations and incarceration to settle political scores reveals a deep contempt for the rule of legislation.
If this identical conduct occurred in an authoritarian state, our personal U.S. State Division would condemn it. In liberal New York, evidently it’s politics as regular.
We should have the braveness to name out this madness earlier than it turns into normalized. We should struggle to save lots of this Republic and the rule of legislation. If we don’t, or if we select to stay silent, we’ll turn into simply one other junk banana republic. —Finish Thread
