{"id":20017,"date":"2024-06-06T14:46:20","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T14:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/06\/haley-christie-stay-quiet-on-trump-guilty-verdict-as-gop-outrage-grows-over-un-american-silence\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T14:46:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T14:46:20","slug":"haley-christie-stay-quiet-on-trump-guilty-verdict-as-gop-outrage-grows-over-un-american-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/06\/haley-christie-stay-quiet-on-trump-guilty-verdict-as-gop-outrage-grows-over-un-american-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Haley, Christie stay quiet on Trump guilty verdict as GOP outrage grows over \u2018un-American\u2019 silence"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A number of top Republicans are taking aim at those in the party who have refused to speak out against former President Trump\u2019s guilty verdict in his New York City trial last week, a group that includes former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.<\/p>\n

Republicans overwhelmingly rushed to Trump\u2019s defense after he was found guilty Thursday on all 34 counts of falsifying business records, and those most closely aligned with the former president are making sure those who haven\u2019t know their lack of action isn\u2019t going unnoticed.<\/p>\n

\u2018I think it\u2019s important for Republicans to be united on a basic reality that many independents and even a good number of Democrats plainly see: this trial was a sham,\u2019 former presidential candidate and staunch Trump surrogate Vivek Ramaswamy told Fox News Digital.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018It\u2019s a disgrace that a former U.S. president was convicted of a felony, where the jurors were told they didn\u2019t have to even agree on what the crime was. It\u2019s un-American,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville took a more somber tone, telling Fox that Americans are now experiencing \u2018an all-out war on our constitutional republic.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018These soft RINOs are letting their hatred for Donald Trump blind them from fighting to save our country. They need to either get on board or officially announce they prefer a socialist, communist regime,\u2019 he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018This is way bigger than Donald Trump. It\u2019s about preserving the things that make our country the envy of the world. No true conservative should be able to say they care about America if they stand by and do nothing as the left destroys it.\u2019<\/p>\n

Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn told Fox that \u2018every American should be frightened by the left\u2019s brazen escalation of their two tiers of justice.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Joe Biden knows he can\u2019t\u00a0beat Donald Trump\u00a0at the ballot box, so he is weaponizing our justice system to manufacture his desired outcome. As a party, Republicans need to stand united behind President Trump and condemn this scheme for what it is: election interference,\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n

Utah Sen. Mike Lee told Fox, \u2018No Republican should stay silent in the midst of this unprecedented attack on America\u2019s free elections and impartial judicial system. The stakes are too high.\u2019<\/p>\n

Florida Sen. Rick Scott told Fox that \u2018Everyone who calls themselves a leader in our party must stand up and condemn this lawless election interference,\u2019 a swipe at those silent over Trump but also aimed at Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who he is vying to replace as the Senate\u2019s Republican leader.<\/p>\n

\u2018Silence is not merely indifference. It is an endorsement of Joe Biden and the weaponization of our justice system,\u2019 he added.<\/p>\n

McConnell came to Trump\u2019s defense following the verdict, writing in a post on X, \u2018These charges never should have been brought in the first place. I expect the conviction to be overturned on appeal.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Fox has reached out to representatives of Haley and Christie for comment.<\/p>\n

Christie spoke extensively on the campaign trail while running in the Republican presidential primaries about Trump\u2019s legal woes, even predicting he would be a \u2018convicted felon\u2019 when accepting the GOP nomination at the Republican National Convention in July.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A number of top Republicans are taking aim at those in the party who have refused to speak out against former President Trump\u2019s guilty verdict in his New York City trial last week, a group that includes former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. Republicans overwhelmingly rushed to Trump\u2019s defense <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}