{"id":2239052,"date":"2024-05-07T10:51:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T14:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-frustrates-republicans-by-repeating-soft-on-crime-stance-with-select-democrats\/"},"modified":"2024-05-07T10:52:48","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T14:52:48","slug":"trump-frustrates-republicans-by-repeating-soft-on-crime-stance-with-select-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-frustrates-republicans-by-repeating-soft-on-crime-stance-with-select-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s repeated soft-on-crime stance with certain Democrats irks Republicans"},"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%2Ftrump-frustrates-republicans-by-repeating-soft-on-crime-stance-with-select-democrats%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=2239052&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>Former President \u200bDonald Trump, \u200ba <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-real-life-iron-man-the-incredible-story-of-elon-musks-rise-to-worlds-richest-man\/\" title=\"\u2018A Real Life Iron-Man\u2019: The Incredible Story Of Elon Musk\u2019s Rise To World\u2019s Richest Man\">vocal advocate<\/a> of &#8220;LAW AND ORDER,&#8221;\u200c has\u200c paradoxically stood in defense \u2064of some\u200b Democrats entangled\u200b in legal\u200b issues. He accuses the\u2063 Justice Department, responsible for indicting him twice\u200b via special counsel Jack Smith, of being manipulated by President Joe Biden for political gain in their potential <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-donald-trump-crushes-hillary-clinton-by-double-digits-in-potential-2024-rematch\/\" title=\"Poll: Donald Trump Crushes Hillary Clinton by Double Digits in\u00a0Potential 2024 Rematch\u00a0\u00a0\">presidential rematch<\/a>. Despite this, Trump \u2062has also criticized the DOJ&#8217;s handling of certain Democrats.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1267227396341669889\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">touted<\/a> \u201cLAW AND ORDER\u201d regularly, but amid his legal woes, he has defended some Democrats against prosecution from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/justice-department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Justice Department\">Justice Department<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-signs-1-2-trillion-infrastructure-bill-calls-it-truly-historic\/\" title=\"Joe Biden Signs .2 Trillion Infrastructure Bill, Calls It \u2018Truly Historic\u2019\">regularly claimed<\/a> that the Justice Department, which has levied two indictments against him through special counsel Jack Smith, has been weaponized by President Joe Biden and is \u201celection interference\u201d for the presidential rematch between himself and Biden in November. While Trump has blasted the DOJ, he has also attacked its prosecutions of some Democrats.<\/p>\n<h2>Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich<\/h2>\n<p>Blagojevich, a Democrat, was indicted by a federal grand jury in 2009 on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-lawyer-investigating-corrupt-chicago-democrats-will-remain-on-despite-getting-fired-by-biden\/\" title=\"US Lawyer Investigating Corrupt Chicago Democrats WILL REMAIN On Despite Getting Fired By Biden\">corruption charges<\/a> stemming from his alleged attempts to sell the Senate seat held by Barack Obama, who resigned to become president. He was found guilty of most charges levied against him and was sentenced to 14 years in prison. Blagojevich began his prison sentence in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, while president in 2020, commuted Blagojevich\u2019s sentence. The former president has also regularly decried Blagojevich\u2019s conviction.<\/p>\n<p>Blagojevich was in attendance at Trump\u2019s festivities at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida over the weekend.<\/p>\n<h2>Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ)<\/h2>\n<p>Menendez was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-lives-matter-activist-indicted-on-18-counts-of-fraud-other-federal-charge\/\" title=\"Black Lives Matter Activist Indicted on 18 Counts of Fraud, Other Federal Charge\">federally indicted<\/a> by the DOJ on corruption charges in September 2023, with the charging document accusing him of using his position in the upper chamber of Congress to enrich himself and his wife.<\/p>\n<p>While Trump has not been favorable toward Menendez, he <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2023\/09\/28\/exclusive-trump-bob-menendez-indictment-scheduled-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"tell\">told<\/a> the <em>Daily Caller<\/em> in September that the indictment by the DOJ furthers his claim that there is a \u201ctwo-tier system of justice\u201d and alleged Biden has done far worse than the New Jersey Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think this was an attack, that shows again, in a certain different way, because he wasn\u2019t getting along too well with the Democrats and with Biden, and he disagrees with Biden on a lot of things,\u201d Trump\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is also a two-tier system of justice because Biden has stolen a lot more than he has. I mean, he has taken a lot more money than Menendez,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<h2>Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX)<\/h2>\n<p>Cuellar was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/2990400\/members-congress-indicted-cuellar-joins-officials-charged\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"latest\">latest<\/a> member of the 118th Congress to be indicted when he was charged for allegedly accepting nearly $600,000 in bribes from two foreign entities last week. He has maintained his innocence against the charges.<\/p>\n<p>Trump slammed the indictment in a post on Truth Social on Sunday, claiming that Biden was behind the indictment over Cuellar\u2019s border policies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBiden just Indicted Henry Cuellar because the Respected Democrat Congressman wouldn\u2019t play Crooked Joe\u2019s Open Border game. He was for Border Control, so they said, \u2018Let\u2019s use the FBI and DOJ to take him out!\u2019 This is the way they operate. They\u2019re a bunch of D.C. Thugs, and at some point they will be paying a very big price for what they have done to our Country. CROOKED JOE BIDEN IS A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY!\u201d Trump posted.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The former president has four indictments against him, including two federal ones based on charges of mishandling classified documents and attempting to overturn the 2020 election. His other two indictments in Fulton County, Georgia, and Manhattan stem from the 2020 election and alleged hush money payments ahead of the 2016 election, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s hush money trial is in its fourth week. Porn actress Stormy Daniels is set to testify in the trial on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump, known for championing &#8220;LAW AND ORDER,&#8221; now defends some Democrats facing legal scrutiny, citing politicization of the Justice Department under President Joe Biden. Despite facing two indictments from special counsel Jack Smith, Trump accuses Biden of weaponizing the DOJ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2638,"featured_media":2239053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP24121512163280-1024x591.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2239052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP24121512163280-1024x591.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239052","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\/2638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2239052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2239053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2239052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2239052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2239052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}