Today, Congresswoman Harriet Hageman and Senators John Barrasso and Cynthia Lummis are issuing statements to voice their disappointment in the conviction of former President Donald Trump in the ‘Hush Money’ trial in New York City.
“Today, justice was not served,” said Representative Harriet Hageman in a statement. “Judge Juan Merchan, an activist judge, whose daughter has made over $9 million from the Biden/Harris campaign, presided over a trial where he blocked key witnesses, testimony, and facts by the defense and provided slanted jury instructions prior to the jury deliberating the case. The case was brought after the statute of limitations had passed and was elevated to a felony by a district attorney that campaigned on ‘getting Trump’.”
Rep. Hageman also called the conviction an “infuriating episode” that is about “liberal Democrats’ desperate gasp to win a presidential election that they will ultimately lose”
Senator John Barrasso took to X, formerly Twitter, to say, “The case in New York against President Trump has never been about justice. Democrats are weaponizing the justice system against a political opponent.”
Ultimately, Barrasso is confident that former president Trump will “keep fighting to get America back on track.“
The junior senator from the Cowboy State, Cynthia Lummis, weighed in on social media as well saying, “This hasn’t been a trial; this has been a biased political persecution from the start.”
Earlier today, a jury reached a guilty verdict after two days of deliberations, following a trial that lasted six weeks. The jury of 12 New Yorkers in a Manhattan courtroom came back with their decision, finding Trump guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up a $130,000 payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels in the run-up to the 2016 election.
The verdict is historic, making Trump the first former president to be convicted of a crime.
He is set to be sentenced July 11, days before the start of the Republican National Convention, where he is expected to formally receive the party’s nomination for president.
Trump is poised to face off against President Biden in the November presidential election that will be a rematch of the 2020 contest.
Meanwhile, as cable news outlets began reporting the verdict, and counting off each charge with a “guilty” affirmation, Biden administration employees throughout the West Wing were glued to the mounted televisions, two officials told CNN, describing them as “transfixed” and “stunned,” according to CNN.
Foot traffic in the hallways between the West Wing’s conference rooms and offices slowed to a halt, officials said, as people gathered around TVs set to the four cable news channels, known as “The Quad,” to White House employees. The President was not in the White House, as he has remained out of the public eye in Delaware, mourning the ninth anniversary of the death of his son, Beau.
A source told CNN that the Biden re-election campaign sprung into offensive mode, sending out texts to potential donors and supporters. The texts warned that Biden’s opponent, Trump, is likely “setting fundraising records” following Thursday’s guilty verdict.
“That’s money (Trump) will use to try to get back into the White House to carry out his threats of revenge and retribution against his political opponents,” the texts read.
