First appearance on FOXSen. Rand Paul (R-KY) led 28 other Republican senators in a scathing condemnation of New York’s “show trials” of Attorney General Merrick Garland and former President Trump.
“President Trump’s conviction in Manhattan is truly a evisceration of our American justice system,” the lawmakers said in a letter Wednesday. “In their eagerness to imprison Donald Trump, Democratic prosecutors have successfully dismantled the constitutional protections afforded the defendant and the barriers that protect all Americans from the abuses of arbitrary rule.”
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Senator Rand Paul, along with 28 other Republican senators, condemned the New York trial of former President Donald Trump in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland. (Getty Images, Reuters)
A majority of the Senate Republican Conference signed the censure, including the three candidates for Republican leadership in the next Congress, as well as Minority Whip John Thune (R-Lausanne), Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas).
Trump was convicted by a New York jury last month of 34 counts of falsifying business records and was subject to a gag order in the meantime.
The lawmakers argued that the former president’s due process rights were violated during the trial.
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“Even if Judge Juan Marchan were to ignore the money donated to Democratic candidates and campaigns, the prosecutors were permitted to convert the time-barred misdemeanor business records violations into felonies because the records violations were found to facilitate a second crime. But even after the jury returns its verdict, it remains unclear what the second crime specifically means,” Paul wrote.
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Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump sits in court during his hush money trial in Manhattan Criminal Court, New York City, May 21, 2024. (Michael M. Santiago/Pool AFP via Getty Images)
He also criticized President Biden’s administration, saying it was “complicit in the destruction of due process of law.”
Republicans denounced the trial as “an attempt to jail a loyal opposition leader” and that it “threatens the existence of due process of law, without which there can be no constitutional republic dedicated to the protection of individual liberty.”
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Paul argued that the trial violates Trump’s due process. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Trump is expected to appeal the case, with a ruling scheduled for July 11, just days before the Republican National Convention.
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The former president is scheduled to visit the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on Thursday to meet with Republican members of the House and Senate.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) declined to comment to Fox News Digital.
