{"id":2001307,"date":"2023-08-15T13:38:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T17:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indicted-tim-scott-denounces-weaponized-legal-system\/"},"modified":"2023-08-15T13:39:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T17:39:13","slug":"donald-trump-indicted-tim-scott-denounces-weaponized-legal-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indicted-tim-scott-denounces-weaponized-legal-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Scott condemns the &#8216;weaponization&#8217; of the legal system following Donald Trump&#8217;s 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\">26<\/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-tim-scott-denounces-weaponized-legal-system%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=2001307&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>Sen. Tim \u200cScott Responds to Trump&#8217;s \u2063Indictment in Georgia<\/h2>\n<p>During a campaign appearance at the Iowa State Fair with Gov. Kim Reynolds, Sen. Tim Scott addressed the\u200b recent indictment of former President Donald Trump in Georgia. When asked about the \u2064grand\u2063 jury \u2063indictment, Scott expressed\u2062 his\u2062 concerns \u200dabout \u2064the weaponization of the legal system\u2062 against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ted-cruz-manages-to-trigger-leftists-by-doing-something-millions-of-americans-do-every-year\/\" title=\"Ted Cruz Manages To Trigger Leftists by Doing Something Millions of Americans Do Every Year\">political opponents<\/a>, calling\u200b it both un-American and \u2063unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need a \u2063better system than that,&#8221; Scott stated.\u2063 &#8220;As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-fun-facts-about-failed-national-security-adviser-jake-sullivan\/\" title=\"5 Fun Facts About Failed National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan\">potential future president<\/a> of the United States, I \u200chope\u2062 to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-republican-state-senators-propose-bills-to-end-no-excuse-mail-voting-automatic-registration\/\" title=\"Georgia Republican State Senators Propose Bills to End No-excuse Mail Voting, Automatic Registration\">restore confidence<\/a> and\u2063 integrity in\u200d all \u2063of our Departments \u200cof Justice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Scott\u2064 was\u200c also \u200dquestioned about Trump&#8217;s phone conversation with Georgia \u200cSecretary of State Brad Raffensperger, in which Trump requested the finding of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-bombshell-mi-judge-grants-attorney-matt-deperno-permission-to-release-results-of-forensic-examination-on-16-dominion-voting-machines-in-antrim-co-video\/\" title=\"BREAKING BOMBSHELL: MI Judge Grants Attorney Matt DePerno Permission To RELEASE Results Of Forensic Examination On 16 Dominion Voting Machines In Antrim Co. [VIDEO]\">additional votes<\/a>. \u2062While Raffensperger \u200bmaintained the accuracy of \u200dGeorgia&#8217;s \u200belection, Scott stated\u2062 that\u2062 he drew\u200c different conclusions from \u200dthe call.<\/p>\n<p>When asked for further clarification, Scott&#8217;s campaign did not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indicted-tim-scott-denounces-weaponized-legal-system\/\" title=\"Tim Scott condemns the 'weaponization' of the legal system following Donald Trump's indictment.\">provide \u200dadditional details<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Other prominent candidates, such as Gov. Ron DeSantis, former\u200b Vice President \u2064Mike\u200b Pence, and\u2063 former U.N. Ambassador\u2064 Nikki Haley, did not comment on the indictment at the time.<\/p>\n<h3>Vivek Ramaswamy and Asa \u200bHutchinson Weigh In<\/h3>\n<p>Vivek Ramaswamy, \u200ba candidate running in the primary, preemptively responded to the indictment on\u2062 social media and criticized it\u2063 during a NewsNation \u200ctown hall. He referred to the indictments as &#8220;politicized \u200bpersecutions through \u200bprosecution&#8221; and expressed \u2063his desire to win the election \u200dwithout the presence of Donald Trump in the \u200cprimary.<\/p>\n<p>Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who is polling at\u2064 around 1% nationally, promptly\u200c shared his thoughts on the news. \u200cHe stated that\u2063 Donald Trump has disqualified himself from holding the nation&#8217;s highest office again and emphasized that the voters\u200c will ultimately \u2062decide the \u200cfuture \u200bof democracy.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">click\u200b here<\/a> to visit the Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) addressed former President Donald Trump&#8217;s recent indictment in Georgia while campaigning at the Iowa State Fair with Gov. Kim Reynolds (R-IA). In response to a query from NBC News reporter Ali Vitali, Scott commented on the indictment just 12 hours after it was issued by the Georgia grand jury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2001308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2001307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"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\/2001307","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=2001307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2001308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2001307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2001307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2001307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}