Several prominent figures in the US Republican Party, including candidates for the 2024 presidential election, criticized former President Donald Trump on Sunday following his historic federal impeachment in Miami this week.
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“I can’t defend” his accusers, Mike Pence declared on NBC, the 2024 Republican primary candidate against Donald Trump, who was vice president.
Trump appeared before a federal court in Miami on Tuesday, in a precedent for a former president, because he kept top secret documents after leaving the White House and refused to return them.
He pleaded not guilty, setting the stage for a trial that could prove deeply damaging to his campaign for the 2024 US presidential election.
“I think he should give up” the race for the White House, former Arkansas governor and Republican primary candidate Asa Hutchinson declared on ABC, deeming the allegations “serious and incompetent.”
Mark Esper, Donald Trump’s defense secretary, ruled that “if the accusations are true, they contain information about the security of our nation. […] “It can be very harmful to the nation,” he told CNN.
“No one is above the law,” he added, considering these revelations “disturbing.”
These statements contrast with those of many Republicans in Congress who have either defended Trump or refused to criticize him.
But some Republican presidential candidates find themselves in a delicate position, eager to show they differ from Donald Trump, while avoiding alienating his loyal base.
Mike Pence stressed that the former president “deserved” to be summoned to court, while declining to comment on the case “until [Donald Trump] He had the opportunity to take his case to court.
He also said, “I don’t know why some of my rivals in the Republican primary assume that the president will be guilty.”
Donald Trump is accused of endangering the security of the United States by keeping classified documents, including military plans or information on nuclear weapons, in a bathroom or storage room at his luxurious Mar-a-Lago, Florida residence, and refusing to return these documents. documents despite court orders.
The case is one of several court files that cast a shadow over his run for a second term in 2024.
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