As soon as the charges against former President Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants were known, the reactions did not wait in the political world, both from one of those listed by the Georgia justice system and from those who contend for the candidacy of the Republican Party for the 2024 elections. .
Trump’s personal lawyer and former mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani, responded to the accusation against him through a statement distributed by one of his advisers, calling it “an affront to American democracy” that “does permanent and irrevocable damage to our justice system.”
“It is just the next chapter in a book of lies with the purpose of incriminating President Donald Trump and anyone who is willing to confront the ruling regime,” he stressed about the accusation that covers 41 charges, 13 of which directly implicate the ex-president.
“The real criminals here are the people who have brought this case both directly and indirectly,” he added.
At least thirty of the 41 charges exposed on Monday night are connected through the Corrupt and Influenced by Extortion Organizations Act (RICO), which contemplates prison sentences of between 5 and 20 years in case of being convicted. proven beyond doubt, and are part of the 2.5-year investigation to prove that Trump and his allies moved to overturn the 2020 Georgia election result.
REPUBLICAN REACTIONS
Former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy were the only Republican presidential candidates other than Trump to weigh in on the fourth indictment against the former president.
“Regardless of the details of Georgia’s impeachment, I look forward to the voters making the final decision on the future of our democracy,” Hutchinson said in a statement.
According to the former federal prosecutor, Trump’s actions “disqualified him from serving as president again.”
Hutchinson anticipated that he will make additional comments once he has reviewed the allegation in its entirety.
Meanwhile, Ramaswamy reacted to the allegation on News Nation moments after the news broke.
“The reality is that these are persecutions politicized through prosecution,” he said.
Ramaswamy indicated that he had not yet read the document, but felt that people should consider this accusation in the context of the three previous ones and see that the United States is becoming a “banana republic.”
