The top two Democrats in Congress, Senate Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, released a joint statement late Monday applauding the indictment of former President Donald Trump in Fulton County. Other Democrats, who have long criticized Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election result, had similar reactions.
“This latest indictment details how Mr. Trump led a months-long plot pushing the Big Lie to steal an election, undermine our democracy, and overturn the will of the people of Georgia,” Schumer and Jeffries, who both hail from New York, said in a news release. “The actions taken by the Fulton County District Attorney, along with other state and federal prosecutors, reaffirms the shared belief that in America no one, not even the president, is above the law.”
U.S. Rep. Nikema Williams, who also serves as chairwoman of the Democratic Party of Georgia, said that Trump “is facing the consequences of his actions.”
“After losing the free and fair 2020 election, the failed former president attempted to disenfranchise Georgia voters because he didn’t like the result,” Williams, D-Atlanta, said in a statement. “That was an assault on our democracy.”
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