Republican representative from Nebraska Don Bacon advises party members to stop supporting Donald Trump now that he has been charged in the case regarding the sensitive documents.
A federal grand jury indicted Trump on a total of 37 counts, including 31 counts of willful retention of national defense information, making him the first former president in American history to be charged with a federal felony.
Donald Trump Faces Federal Charges
The Department of Justice (DOJ) designated Special Counsel Jack Smith to handle the investigation after the FBI confiscated hundreds of secret documents from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort last August.
On Tuesday, Trump entered a not guilty plea to the federal charges.
Months after receiving a subpoena requiring him to deliver all records, the FBI searched his home.
For the course of the investigation, the former president always denied any wrongdoing.
Last week, Smith claimed that Trump was accused of conspiring to obstruct justice as well as breaking the nation’s national security laws.
The many locations where Trump kept the documents, including a bathroom, a ballroom, his bedroom, and in an office space, were made public by the unsealed indictment, which was made public on Friday.
The indictment claims that thousands of persons might have had access to the records since they were dispersed around Mar-a-Lago.
Bacon is worried by the specifics of the indictment, and he thinks the GOP should quit backing Trump, according to CNN.
In contrast to Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, Congressman Dan Crenshaw recently said, “It’s really troublesome. There’s a reason I’m not defending it.”
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Mixed Reactions Among Republicans
But, not every Republican politician is as willing to defend the former president as some of them, notably House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who made headlines Monday over his federal indictment defense of Donald Trump.
When asked about claims in the indictment that Trump stored secret papers in a toilet at his Mar-A-Lago estate after his term, McCarthy said to reporters, A bathroom door locks.
Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., the minority whip, voiced concern that Trump may harm the GOP’s chances of winning elections, claiming that his indictment might make it difficult for candidates further down the ticket to gain support in the future election cycle.
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