Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) accused Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg of "abusing his office" to attack Donald Trump this past Sunday. The House Speaker criticized the persecution that the former president is experiencing while Democrats, including Bragg, are failing in their duty to try to curb crime in the nation.
In the tweet McCarthy posted on Sunday, he took advantage of the opportunity to assure that, unlike the Democratic Party, the GOP did carry out anti-crime measures and that they will continue to fight crime, including looking into several district attorneys funded by George Soros:
Alvin Bragg is abusing his office to target President Trump while he’s reduced a majority of felonies, including violent crimes, to misdemeanors. He has different rules for political opponents.
Republicans stopped the radical DC crime law, and we will investigate any use of… https://t.co/5yYIo8SUOC
— Kevin McCarthy (@SpeakerMcCarthy) March 19, 2023
McCarthy calls for calm on Trump's possible arrest
McCarthy's statements came in the wake of a post that Donald Trump published on Truth Social where he claimed that he could be arrested on Tuesday due to "illegal leaks" released by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office on his possible role in silencing porn star Stormy Daniels. McCarthy told NBC News in a meeting with Republican congressmen in Orlando (Florida), that these accusations have no strong legal basis:
Lawyer after lawyer will tell you this is the weakest case out there, trying to make a misdemeanor a felony. The last thing we want … is somebody putting their thumb on the scale [of justice] simply because they don’t agree with somebody else’s political view. That is what’s wrong, and that’s what infuriates people. And this will not hold up in court if this is what he wants to do.
Trump, after learning of his possible arrest, called on his supporters to take to the streets in protest. The Speaker of the House of Representatives does not agree that such a measure is necessary and urged citizens to remain calm in light of the possible indictment of the former president: "I don’t think people should protest this, no. And I think President Trump, if you talk to him, he doesn’t believe that, either. [...] Nobody should harm one another ... We want calmness out there."
