Republican US Senator Mitt Romney, who is an outspoken critic of Donald Trump, has said the indictment against the former US president is politically motivated.
In a statement, Romney said Trump’s character and conduct “make him unfit for office”, but the New York prosecutor “has stretched to reach the felony criminal charges in order to fit a political agenda”.
He said “no one is above the law,” but “everyone is entitled to equal treatment under the law” and the prosecutor is setting a dangerous precedent for criminalising political opponents – which “damages the public’s faith in our justice system”.
Romney went on to say that American voters “will ultimately render their own judgment on the former president’s political future”.
The Utah senator voted against Trump in both his impeachment trials – the only one to vote in his first impeachment trial and one of seven Republicans to vote against Trump on his second impeachment trial.
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