Senate Republicans have signed on to a letter taking a stand against Democrats’ efforts to prosecute former President Donald Trump. In the aftermath of the verdict against the former president in the Manhattan trial, lawmakers vowed to hinder Democratic legislative initiatives as a rebuke to President Joe Biden and others involved in the weaponization of the state against their political opponent.
The letter, signed by Republican Sens. Mike Lee, JD Vance, Tommy Tuberville, Eric Schmitt, Marsha Blackburn, Rick Scott, Roger Marshall, and Marco Rubio, accused the White House of making “a mockery of the rule of law,” and fundamentally altering “our politics in un-American ways.”
The lawmakers declared they are “unwilling to aid and abet this White House in its project to tear this country apart”:
To that end, we will not 1) allow any increase to non-security related funding…
