Former Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake has released a statement in response to a Manhattan grand jury voting to indict former President Donald Trump over his alleged role in a payment to Stormy Daniels in 2016.
In response, Lake’s statement began, “This is a dark moment in the history of our nation. As the radical left and their weaponized criminal justice system have crossed all legal and ethical lines in an attempt to destroy the 45th and likely 47th President of the United State of America Donald J. Trump.”
“Jailing your political opponents based on frivolous politically-motivated accusations is something that you’d expect to see out of third-world dictatorships or banana republicans, Lake continued, adding, “And now, after a relentless assault on our beloved United States Constitution and our institutional norms, the radical left has accelerated this country’s decline into a broken system that allows for the political persecution of ANYONE who threatens the status quo.”
My statement on the Indictment of the 45th & 47th President of the United States. Donald J. Trump ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/kC2fnNpNiD
— Kari Lake (@KariLake) March 31, 2023
Lake, declaring that there is “no crime here,” added that the “only wrongdoing here would be an FEC crime punishable by a fine not potential imprisonment.”
The former gubernatorial candidate then called for a bipartisan condemnation of the actions taken against Trump, adding, “The precedent this sets threatens to further divide a country that already seems to be on the verge of tearing itself apart.”
“I stand unequivocally beside President Donald J Trump and in defense of the rule of law. I am calling on all others to do the same,” Lake concluded.
Following the Manhattan grand jury’s vote on Wednesday, Trump released a statement calling the indictment against him “political persecution and election interference at the highest level in history.”
“This is an attack on our country the likes of which has never been seen before,” Trump added.
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Arizona Sun Times and The Star News Network.
Photo “Kari Lake” by Gage Skidmore CC2.0.
The only thing relentless here is Trump’s criminal behavior.