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Former President Donald Trump’s closest allies in Congress are linking his Thursday night indictment to an attempt to divert attention from an FBI document alleging that President Biden was guilty of accepting bribes when he became Vice President used to be.
“The SAME DAY (House Oversight Committee) is shown a document from the FBI showing that Biden and his son were each paid $5 million dollars by a foreigner. The DOJ is indicting Trump. Chance? I don’t think so,” Rep. Anna Paulina Luna , wrote R-Fla., on Twitter.
House GOP conference chair Elise Stefanik went so far as to accuse Democrats of meddling in the 2024 election. to turn over flagrant and insidious corruption to Congress, Joe Biden is deploying his Justice Department to indict Donald Trump,” she said.
“The American people are smart and understand that this is the embodiment of the federal government’s illegal and unprecedented weaponization against Joe Biden’s main opponent, President Donald J. Trump. to support Joe Biden’s catastrophic presidency and desperate campaign,” Stefanik said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
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Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-NY, accused Democrats of interfering in 2024 election (The Washington Post via Getty Images)
The former president announced he had been charged in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into the handling of classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago.
“The corrupt Biden administration has informed my lawyers that I have been charged, apparently over the Boxes Hoax,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social app. “I have been summoned to appear before the Federal Courthouse in Miami at 3 p.m. Tuesday. I never imagined that something like this could happen to a former president of the United States, who received far more votes than any sitting president in the history of our country, and currently leads by far all candidates, both Democrat and Republican, in polls for the 2024 presidential election. I AM AN INNOCENT MAN!”
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Donald Trump’s allies immediately seized on the fact that the indictment against Trump came on the same day Republicans reviewed an FBI document they say proves President Biden took a bribe
Trump was charged earlier this year in a separate case brought by Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg related to hush money payments to a porn star who claims to have had an affair with Trump in 2006.
“It’s a sad day for America. God bless President Trump,” said R-Ohio House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan.
Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., said, “Imagine being naive enough to believe that the Biden bribery evidence and Trump indictment happening on the same day was a coincidence.”
“The bogus Boxes Hoax indictment is an attempt to distract the American public from the millions of dollars in bribes the Biden Crime Family received from foreigners. This plan will not succeed. President Donald Trump will be back in the White House and Joe Biden will be Hunter’s cellmate,” Gaetz also said.
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Special Prosecutor Jack Smith (Fox News screenshot/AP photo)
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., wrote, “Democrats literally must be shivering with sweat as they watch amazingly packed Trump rallies and overwhelmingly winning polls week after week.
“We have to win in 2024. We have to beat these sick people. We started winning today in the SCIF read proof of Joe Biden’s bribery crimes in Ukraine. In the end, we win,” Greene said.
“We can’t have two levels of justice: one for Trump on government record keeping, another for Biden. One for Assange, another for Manning. One for BLM/Antifa, another for peaceful protesters on January 6,” said GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. . “I never thought we would see the day when the US president dispatches the Justice Department to arrest his leading rival in the middle of an election.
Elizabeth Elkind is a political reporter for Fox News Digital.
