'These people have made the statements and defenses despite the facts in the indictment,' a former Watergate prosecutor told Newsweek.
Nick Akerman, former assistant special Watergate prosecutor and former assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, toldthat"there's no real comparison" between what Trump is alleged to have done and what Biden and former Vice President"Biden and Pence had a couple of documents that were taken by mistake and they turned them back the minute they found them," Akerman said."This was not done by mistake.
The defenses exhibited by Republicans like McCarthy and Donalds lack substance and do so intentionally based on the nature of the charges stemming from special counsel"What's really remarkable is that these people have made the statements and defenses despite the facts in the indictment, despite the fact that some haven't even read the indictment," Akerman said.
"So, you've got certain people—Kevin McCarthy is the GM in the sense that he's got a very slim majority. He's got to appease these kinds of right-wing wackos that he's got that could turn on him at any moment. So, he's trying to play both ends against the middle, but the problem is the facts are just so bad."
Republicans have been across the board in either supporting or admonishing the former president based on the charges presented. He has his die-hard supporters in
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