Yahoo Autos Mike Pence Says Impending Trump Arrest ‘Reeks’ of ‘Political Prosecution’
Hours after Donald Trump announced in a caps lock rant that he anticipates getting arrested next week, his former vice president Mike Pence joined the chorus of Republicans criticizing the Manhattan district attorney and questioning his motives.
“Like many Americans, I’m just, I’m taken aback,” Pence told SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Saturday morning after Trump’s Truth Social post. “You have a major crime wave in New York, especially in New York City. You have literally a Democratic party that’s literally dismantled the criminal justice system in that city, undercut the NYPD, and this is what the Manhattan DA says is their top priority?,” referring to Alvin Bragg.
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"It Reeks Of the Kind Of Political Prosecution That We Endured Back In The Days Of The #Russia Hoax" @Mike_Pence on the report of pending @realDonaldTrump arrest in NY
via @BreitbartNews Saturday with @mboyle1 pic.twitter.com/GrAvyzEgkC— SiriusXM Patriot (@SiriusXMPatriot) March 18, 2023
Pence continued, “It reeks of the kind of political prosecution that we endured back in the days of the Russia hoax and the whole impeachment over a phone call. And the one thing I know is, I know that former President Trump can take care of himself… But I have the same reaction everybody else does to this, these reports.”
The ex-vice president continues to stand by Trump despite the fact that the former president “endangered my family” on January 6, 2021; a White House security officer testified to the committee that members of Pence’s security detail went so far as to call their families to say goodbye, such was the fear for their life and safety. Pence has similarly said that Trump shouldn’t face charges for his role in the Jan. 6 riots, and that “history will hold Donald Trump accountable.”
The expected charges against Trump — believed to be related to a $130,000 hush money payment made to porn Actress Stormy Daniels in October 2016 — come after years of Manhattan prosecutors’ sprawling investigation into alleged financial crimes, and arrives nearly two years after Trump’s longtime chief financial Allen Weisselberg was charged in relation to tax fraud for facilitating the payment of $1.7 million in untaxed benefits to the ex-president’s moneyman.
