GOP Lawmaker Demands Democrats Act Amid Trump Indictment – ‘Government Does Not Have The Right To Hunt Donald Trump’

Representative Austin Scott (R-GA), a member of the House Intelligence Committee, denounced the many investigations of President Trump and said that the “government does not have the right to hunt Donald Trump.” He made these remarks during an interview with Just The News. He also blasted Nancy Pelosi’s un-American comments about the need to prove one’s innocence in a court of law.

Mr. Scott noted that “[t]hey [Democrats] have hunted Donald Trump and his family for years and years and years. The thing that separates America from other countries is the government does not have the right to hunt an American citizen. Whether you like him or not, the government does not have the right to hunt Donald Trump, to hunt the Trump Organization, to hunt his family.”

The Georgian lawmaker reached out to Democrats who believe in civil liberties to speak up against this witch hunt. His exact words were that “very Democrat out there who believes in civil liberties, should be standing up and saying this is wrong.”

He then turned to former Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s ill-judged words about the indictment. Mr. Scott rightly remarked that “[u]nfortunately, you’ve got people like Speaker Pelosi saying ‘oh, well, he can go prove his innocence.’ Well, the difference between America and other countries is in America, you don’t have to prove your innocence. That’s what the Constitution is about.”

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Mr. Scott took to social media to summarize his thoughts on the legal action against Trump too. He noted that “[w]hether you like Trump or not, you should be worried that the Democratic Party is weaponizing the judicial system for political purposes. The Constitution means nothing to them.”

Whether you like Trump or not, you should be worried that the Democratic Party is weaponizing the judicial system for political purposes.

The Constitution means nothing to them.

— Rep. Austin Scott (@AustinScottGA08) March 30, 2023

In a commentary piece written by three Heritage Foundation legal scholars, they too concurred that “it’s clear he’s [Trump] been the target of potential prosecution by politically ambitious local district attorneys in New York and Georgia—and by a politicized federal Justice Department—for some time.” In this piece, they document the weakness of each of the probes against Trump- be the probe from Manhattan or Atlanta.

They decry that this is “a dangerous precedent to set. Party activists should be allowed—indeed, encouraged—to participate in the hurly-burly of the political process without having to worry about the criminal law being weaponized against them…Never before has a former president, much less one who is currently running to regain his old office, been charged with a crime.”

Civil libertarians on the left like Alan Dershowitz and Jonathan Turley have spoken out in similar terms about the indictment and the weakness of the alleged case.