{"id":1909905,"date":"2023-04-04T21:12:49","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T01:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-arrest-romney-says-new-york-prosecutor-stretched-to-reach-felony-criminal-charges\/"},"modified":"2023-04-04T21:13:34","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T01:13:34","slug":"donald-trump-arrest-romney-says-new-york-prosecutor-stretched-to-reach-felony-criminal-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-arrest-romney-says-new-york-prosecutor-stretched-to-reach-felony-criminal-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump arrest: Romney says \u2018New York prosecutor stretched to reach felony criminal charges\u2019"},"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\">28<\/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-arrest-romney-says-new-york-prosecutor-stretched-to-reach-felony-criminal-charges%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=1909905&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\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<p> Senator Mitt Romney, who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump twice, has spoken out about the legal justification for the Trump indictment. The Utah senator is skeptical of the felony charges brought against Trump, warning that the charges set \u201ca dangerous precedent for criminalizing political opponents and damages the public\u2019s faith in our justice system\u201d. <\/p>\n<p> Romney\u2019s comments are rare support for the former president. As one of the most prominent critics of President Trump within the GOP, Romney voted to convict Trump in both impeachment trials and was the only Senate Republican to support abuse of power charges against Trump in his first trial. <\/p>\n<p> Although he does not support Trump&#8217;s second run for the White House, Romney has criticized Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg while calling the charges &#8220;overreach&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cI believe President Trump\u2019s character and conduct make him unfit for office,\u201d Romney said in a statement. \u201cEven so, I believe the New York prosecutor has stretched to reach felony criminal charges in order to fit a political agenda. No one is above the law, not even former presidents, but everyone is entitled to equal treatment under law.\u201d <\/p>\n<p> Romney added that \u201cThe charges and evidence will be duly considered and the outcome decided by a jury with an obligation to fulfill its responsibility with the utmost care and impartiality\u201d. <\/p>\n<p> In contrast to mostly silence from Senate Republican leadership, Romney\u2019s statement sets a new standard for his party. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Whip John Thune have not responded to the indictment. <\/p>\n<p> President Trump pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. The prosecutors accused him of paying two women to suppress their accounts of sexual encounters with him. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump twice, is skeptical of the legal justification for the Trump indictment, warning the charges set \u201ca dangerous precedent for criminalizing political opponents and damages the public\u2019s faith in our justice system.\u201d The comments from the Utah senator are a rare defense of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1909906,"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":[5175,4035,3977,4657,6914,6420,6215,5064,5389,23556,3634,3859],"class_list":["post-1909905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-arrest","tag-charges","tag-criminal","tag-donald","tag-felony","tag-new","tag-prosecutor","tag-reach","tag-romney","tag-stretched","tag-trump","tag-york"],"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\/1909905","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=1909905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1909906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1909905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1909905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1909905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}