Kevin McCarthy, the House speaker, said: "Justice should be blind, but Biden has weaponised government against his leading political opponent to interfere in the 2024 election."
Trump faces 91 criminal charges in all, also regarding hush-money payments to an adult film star, retention of classified information and federal election subversion. Regardless, he dominates Republican primary polling, leading his closest challengers nationally and in early voting states by about 40 points.
Referring to Fani Willis, the Fulton county district attorney, McCarthy said on Twitter, now known as X: "Now a radical DA [district attorney] in Georgia is following Biden's lead by attacking President Trump and using it to fundraise her political career. Americans see through this desperate sham." Trump has long used his legal predicament as a fundraising engine, both for his campaign and as a way to pay his increasingly mountainous legal bills.
On Monday night, after charges were filed in Georgia, an email soliciting donations bemoaned a "FOURTH ACT of Election Interference on behalf of the Democrats in an attempt to keep the White House under Crooked Joe's control and JAIL his single greatest opponent of the 2024 election".
Republicans in Congress remained firmly on Trump's side. Elise Stefanik, a member of House leadership, said Trump "had every legal right to challenge the results of the election" that he had conclusively lost.
She added: "This blatant election interference by the far left will not work, President Trump will defeat these bogus charges and win back the White House in 2024."
Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, Trump's closest rival for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, said he was "pissed".
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