House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan recently floated the idea of “defunding politicized prosecutions” following Trump’s controversial conviction in the hush money trial, where he was found guilty on all 34 felony counts related to the falsification of business documents.
Trump has faced a mountain of legal battles ahead of the 2024 presidential election including prosecution from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, and New York Attorney General Letitia James.
Jordan recently wrote a letter to House Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole in which he indicated that the House Judiciary Committee has “conducted oversight of the troubling rise in politicized prosecutions and the use of abusive ‘lawfare’ tactics to target political opponents.”
The Republican representative further asserted that “rogue prosecutors” have disregarded the “the rules of professional conduct and their duty to do justice in service of politicized ends” as they seek to prosecute Trump to no end.
According to a report from Axios, “He recommended that the Appropriations Committee adopt language to eliminate federal funding for state prosecutors or state attorneys general involved in such activity and ‘to zero out federal funding for federal prosecutors engaged in such abuse.’”
Trump’s sentencing is set for July 11, where he faces a maximum sentence of over 130 years in prison. However, legal experts, such as Jonathan Turley, have suggested there is a strong opportunity to appeal the case.
“I believe that the case will be reversed eventually either in the state or federal systems,” Turley, a law professor at Georgetown University, said. “However, this was the worst expectation for a trial in Manhattan,” he said. “I had hoped that the jurors might redeem the integrity of a system that has been used for political purposes.”
Turley continued, “The trial is a target-rich environment for appeal. However, that appeal will stretch beyond the election. In the meantime, Democrats and President Biden can add ‘convicted felon’ to the political mantra,” he said.
Throughout the hush money trial, former President Donald Trump maintained his innocence and blasted the case as a politically motivated witch hunt aimed to thwart his campaign efforts ahead of the election later this year.
The American Tribune previously reported on Trump’s post-verdict comments outside of the New York City courtroom in which he maintained that he was fighting for the country. The former president added that the real verdict will be delivered at the ballot box in November. Trump stated:
“This was a disgrace. This was a rigged trial by a conflicted judge who was corrupt. It’s a rigged trial, a disgrace. They wouldn’t give us a venue change. We were at 5% or 6% in this district, in this area, this was a rigged, disgraceful trial. The real verdict is going to be November 5, by the people. And they know what happened here, and everybody knows what happened here. You have a Soros-backed DA and the whole thing, we didn’t do a thing wrong. I’m a very innocent man, and it’s okay. I’m fighting for our country. I’m fighting for our Constitution. Our whole country is being rigged right now. This was done by the Biden administration in order to wound or hurt an opponent, a political opponent, and I think it’s just a disgrace. And we’ll keep fighting. We’ll fight till the end, and we’ll win because our country’s gone to hell. We don’t have the same country anymore. We have a divided mess we’re nation in decline, serious decline. Millions and millions of people pouring into our country right now from prisons and from mental institutions, terrorists and they’re taking over our country. We have a country that’s in big trouble, but this was a rigged decision, right from day one, with a conflicted judge who should have never been allowed to try this case, never, and we will fight for our Constitution. This is long from over. Thank you very much.”
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