A Florida lawmaker says the GOP should speed up former President Donald Trump’s nomination to be its presidential candidate if only to “poke” Democrats in the eye.
U.S. Rep. Cory Mills, a New Smyrna Beach Republican, told the Fox Business Network on Friday that the verdict from the “kangaroo court” that convicted Trump on Thursday of allegedly paying off a mistress to sway the 2016 election was an “absolute disgrace.”
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In response, he said, the Republican Party should consider two options.
On one hand, GOP lawmakers should investigate the conflict of interest at issue. That includes, Mills said, probing the daughter of Judge Juan Merchan, the Democrat who presided over the trial, because she is a Democratic operative who is using the trial to raise money for President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign and for Trump’s haters in Congress.
It’s also possible, he added, that Merchan himself is benefiting financially from the case.
“We cannot allow our constitutional republic, which is built on the rule of law, to be a politicized, weaponized justice system that allows … election interference by targeting your political opposition,” Mills said.
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“It’s a sad day for America when the rule of law no longer stands for the rule of law.”
He also called for reprisals, meaning the House should pursue impeachment against Biden and have Republican attorneys general and district attorneys target criminal behavior by Democrats.
However, with Trump due to be sentenced on July 11, just four days before the Republican national convention, at which Trump will be formally nominated, Mills said the GOP needs to speed up that process.
“It’s time to stop playing defense and play offense,” Mills told host Maria Bartiromo.
“That’s all I hear is one more hearing, one more piece of evidence. We’ve got more than enough,” Mills said.
Trump was “impeached wrongfully twice for far less than what we have for Joe Biden and Hunter Biden,” he added.
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“Where’s the case against Hunter Biden? Where’s the case against him about lying about getting a weapon. Where’s the case against the Hunter Biden laptop?” he continued. “I’m tired of hearing one more hearing, one more piece of evidence. This is my own party. I get it. I’m sick of the president being the scapegoat for all of Americans.”
“I think that we as the Republican Party, first off, to poke them in the eye, we should go ahead and move our GOP conference (sic) and elect President Trump as our nominee on July 4th,” MIlls said. “We know they’re trying to prevent him from coming to the actual GOP gathering, so we should go ahead and start looking at that. We have to start stepping up our efforts.”
“If they’re going to try to do a sentencing on the 11th, which I know will hold him up, I say that we bring President Trump, we move it and we elect him as our nominee on July 4th, Independence Day, and we start moving forward,” Mills reiterated.
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“I think that’s a symbolic measure and I think it tells them exactly where we’re at as America,” he added.
“We have to ensure something like this never happens again,” Mills continued. “The precedents that are being set by the left is that no one is safe, that you’re guilty until proven innocent, not the other way around, and that they can continue to do this kangaroo-style court in this … banana republic where you’re guilty because we say you’re guilty.”
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