{"id":1907462,"date":"2023-03-30T23:12:12","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T03:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indicted-republicans-erupt-over-dark-moment-in-american-history\/"},"modified":"2023-03-30T23:16:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T03:16:32","slug":"donald-trump-indicted-republicans-erupt-over-dark-moment-in-american-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indicted-republicans-erupt-over-dark-moment-in-american-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump indicted: Republicans erupt over &#8216;dark moment in American history&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdonald-trump-indicted-republicans-erupt-over-dark-moment-in-american-history%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1907462&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><br \/>\n<html><br \/>\n   <body><\/p>\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<p><span class=\"ArticlePage-articleBody-firstLetter\">N<\/span>ews that President Donald Trump has been indicted by a grand jury has sparked impassioned reactions, highlighting the deep divide in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Rumors of an impending indictment against Trump have been circulating for weeks, but numerous reports and statements by Trump&#8217;s lawyer, Joe Tacopina, on Thursday confirmed that the grand jury moved forward to indict him on charges believed to be related to a $130,000 payment made during the 2016 election cycle to adult film star Stormy Daniels as hush money.<\/p>\n<p>Before this development, no US President had ever been indicted. Trump is currently the front-runner in the Republican Party.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s son Eric called the indictment &#8220;third world prosecutorial misconduct&#8221; and &#8220;the opportunistic targeting of a political opponent in a campaign year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Republicans and conservative commentators largely echoed that sentiment, with Sen.Ted Cruz (R-TX) tweeting, &#8220;The Democrat Party\u2019s hatred for Donald Trump knows no bounds&#8230;This is completely unprecedented and is a catastrophic escalation in the weaponization of the justice system.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>One of Trump&#8217;s 2024 GOP rivals, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, quickly sounded the alarms about how an indictment of Trump could erode public confidence in the justice system. Meanwhile, Republicans warned against the weaponization of the legal system in politics, while Democrats showed support for the grand jury&#8217;s decision.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has denied any wrongdoing and has repeatedly called the inquiry a &#8220;witch hunt.&#8221; There is no clarity on what charges the grand jury has approved.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>   <\/body><br \/>\n<\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News that a grand jury voted to indict President Donald Trump drew impassioned reactions, illustrating the bitter divide in the country. Rumors of a looming indictment against Trump swirled for weeks, but numerous reports and Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina confirmed Thursday that the panel moved forward to indict him for charges believed to stem around<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1907463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[4123,5130,4657,5744,4919,4032,5616,3756,3634],"class_list":["post-1907462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-american","tag-dark","tag-donald","tag-erupt","tag-history","tag-indicted","tag-moment","tag-republicans","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1907462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1907463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1907462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1907462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1907462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}