Speaking on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends” on Friday, May 31, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson called on the Supreme Court of the United States to step in and deal with the Trump conviction. Speaking on the matter, Speaker Johnson said that the conviction of Trump on the 34 charges brought by DA Bragg was “dangerous” and needs to be handled by SCOTUS before it demolishes faith in the justice system.
Beginning, Speaker Johnson led with saying that SCOTUS needs to step in, calling the matter “unprecedented” and “dangerous” to America’s legal system. He said, “I do believe the Supreme Court should step in, obviously. This is totally unprecedented, and it’s dangerous to our system. We’ve all discussed this before and y’all talk about it all the time.
Continuing, Speaker Johnson argued that the whole episode has eviscerated the faith that ordinary Americans have lost faith in America’s judicial system. He said, “This is diminishing the American people’s faith in our system of justice itself. And to maintain a republic, you have to have that. People have to believe that justice is fair, that there is equal justice under law.”
Then, arguing that while Americans don’t believe in the justice system right now, faith could be restored if the justices on the Supreme Court take this matter seriously. He said: “They don’t see that right now,” he continued. “And I think that the justices on the court, I know many of them personally, I think they are deeply concerned about that as we are. So, I think they’ll set this straight, but it’s going to take a while.”
Admitting that the SCOTUS process will take a good while to play out, Johnson then added that this all is obviously happening for political reasons, as the left wants to bankrupt Trump. He said, “The process takes a while to play out. The Democrats know that, of course. And they are dragging it out. That was the whole objective. They want to try to bankrupt Donald Trump. They want to diminish his credibility. And go after his character.”
Adding to that by saying that though the conviction will be overturned, the Democrats are currently using it to smear him, Johnson said, “They wanted to keep him off the campaign trail, which they were successful in doing for many weeks. And now they want to call him the convicted felon. This will be overturned, guys. There is no question about it. It’s going to take some time to do it.”
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Posting about the case on Truth Social, Trump said, “After sitting for five weeks through that Rigged Trial in Lower Manhattan, which was surrounded by vast but unnecessary numbers of New York’s Finest in order to keep law abiding MAGA patriots away, and as I watched insignificant numbers of fully funded Radical Left troublemakers, with brand new and gleaming professionally made signs, screaming and cursing from areas said to be closed to us, and all others, I realized that Reason, Truth, and Love of our Country is no longer a force of Good and Change. These are Dark Days in America!”
Featured image credit: By Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America – Mike Johnson, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=139920652
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