Jun 09, 2023

Kansas, Missouri Senators critical of Trump indictment

Posted Jun 09, 2023 1:00 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supporters of former President Donald Trump have reacted with anger to Thursday's news of the federal indictment against former President Donald Trump and are criticizing the Biden administration. The White House, meanwhile, has declined to comment and referred questions to the Department of Justice. Kansas Senator Roger Marshall and Missouri Senators Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt used social media to criticize the indictment.

Kansas senior Senator Jerry Moran and other members of the Kansas congressional delegation have not issued a statements.

“The Biden Regime, which is realizing they can't beat or cheat their way to another victory, has taken the unprecedented step to indict President Trump,” said Karoline Leavitt, a spokesperson for Make America Great Again Inc., a super PAC backing Trump's bid for a return to the White House.

A White House official said it had no foreknowledge of the indictment and learned of it from news reports.

In an interview Thursday night on Fox News, Sen. Tim Scott said he felt the justice system’s “scales are weighted” based on politics.

“In America, every single person is presumed innocent, not guilty,” Scott said, decrying “the weaponization of the Department of Justice against the former president.”

Scott said he had not spoken to Trump and would “continue to pray for our nation and continue to pray that justice prevails.”