{"id":2001088,"date":"2023-08-15T10:54:09","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T14:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indicted-2024-rivals-largely-remain-quiet\/"},"modified":"2023-08-15T10:55:52","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T14:55:52","slug":"donald-trump-indicted-2024-rivals-largely-remain-quiet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indicted-2024-rivals-largely-remain-quiet\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 rivals stay silent as Donald Trump faces indictment."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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-2024-rivals-largely-remain-quiet%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=2001088&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--><h2>Trump&#8217;s Latest Indictment Draws Mixed Responses from Rivals<\/h2>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump&#8217;s recent indictment has sparked a flurry of reactions from his 2024 presidential rivals. However, while some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indicted-2024-rivals-largely-remain-quiet\/\" title=\"2024 rivals stay silent as Donald Trump faces indictment.\">lower-tiered candidates<\/a> have spoken \u2064out, many \u2063of Trump&#8217;s\u200c major\u2062 rivals have remained surprisingly quiet.<\/p>\n<h3>Lower-Tiered Candidates Respond<\/h3>\n<p>Vivek Ramaswamy, former Texas Rep. Will Hurd, and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, all facing \u200ban uphill battle for \u200dthe nomination, have been the primary \u200brivals to respond to Trump&#8217;s legal woes.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Here we go again: another disastrous Trump indictment. It\u2019s downright\u200d pathetic that Fulton County publicly posted the indictment on its website even before the grand jury had finished convening,&#8221; Ramaswamy posted on X, formerly\u2062 known as Twitter. &#8220;As someone \u200cwho\u2019s running for President against Trump, I\u2019d volunteer\u2063 to write the amicus brief to \u200cthe court myself: prosecutors should not be deciding U.S. presidential elections, and if they\u2019re so overzealous that they commit constitutional violations, then the cases \u200dshould be thrown out &#038; they \u200cshould be held accountable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-find-midterm-strategy-after-months-of-no-direction-save-democrat-governors\/\" title=\"Democrats Find Midterm Strategy After Months of No Direction: Save Democrat Governors\">long-shot candidates<\/a>, including Hurd, have criticized Trump&#8217;s\u200c multiple indictments and urged the GOP to move beyond him. &#8220;This \u2063is \u200cfurther \u200devidence that Trump knew he lost the 2020 \u2064election and was ready to do anything \u200dit took\u2063 to cling\u2063 to\u200b power. He will use this latest indictment as another opportunity to manipulate Americans into paying his legal bills,&#8221; Hurd said.<\/p>\n<h3>Top Rivals Remain Silent<\/h3>\n<p>Notably, Trump&#8217;s top rivals, such as Gov.\u200b Ron \u200bDeSantis, \u2064former Vice President Mike Pence, \u2064Sen. Tim Scott, and former South Carolina\u2064 Gov. Nikki Haley, have not issued any statements regarding the \u2063indictment. This silence is a departure from their previous \u2064denunciations of the \u2064&#8221;weaponization&#8221; of\u200d the\u2062 justice system.<\/p>\n<p>While Pence has been critical of Trump in recent times, he did not \u2063comment on the Georgia indictments. Haley&#8217;s campaign also refrained from addressing the\u2064 indictment and instead focused on the anniversary of the fall of Kabul.<\/p>\n<h3>Christie Pushes \u2062Back Against Trump<\/h3>\n<p>Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a noted anti-Trump critic, spoke out against the former president&#8217;s\u200b attacks on the justice system. &#8220;Look running for president is his choice. No\u200c one else\u200c is making him do\u2062 it. But it \u200bis not an excuse not \u2062for the \u2062justice system to continue to operate,&#8221; Christie said during \u200ban interview with \u2062Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis, Trump&#8217;s top rival, has not commented on the indictment.<\/p>\n<p>The silence from Trump&#8217;s rivals may indicate some fatigue \u200cfrom\u2064 his\u2062 legal problems as they prepare for the\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ronna-mcdaniel-to-run-for-fourth-term-as-rnc-chair\/\" title=\"Ronna McDaniel to Run for Fourth Term as RNC Chair\">upcoming primary debate<\/a>. They are likely to \u2063face questions about Trump&#8217;s dominance in the race.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click\u2063 here<\/a> \u2064to read more from The\u2063 Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump&#8217;s recent indictment received limited responses from his 2024 presidential rivals. However, most of his major opponents have chosen to remain silent, which is a departure from their reactions to previous indictments. 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