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Former Vice President Mike Pence on Friday made his first public comments on the guilty verdict handed down to former President Donald Trump earlier in the week, joining a growing list of Republicans—including those that have been critical of the former president—in condemning the conviction as a political hit job.
“The conviction of former President Trump on politically motivated charges is an outrage and disservice to the nation,” Mr. Pence told Fox News on May 31, a day after a jury found the former president guilty of falsifying business records to hide non-disclosure payments, supposedly to sway the 2016 election in which he was a candidate and Mr. Pence his running mate.
“No one is above the law, but our courts must not become a tool to be used against political opponents,” Mr. Pence continued. “To millions of Americans, this was nothing more than a political prosecution driven by a Manhattan DA who ran for office on a pledge to indict the former president and this conviction undermines confidence in our system of justice.”
[…] Mr. Pence struck a similar tone in his criticism on Friday, saying that the Trump conviction drove yet another wedge between Americans on two sides of a political and cultural divide.
“This conviction also sends a terrible message to the wider world about the American justice system and only further divides us at a time when the American people are struggling under the failed policies of the Biden administration at home and abroad,” Mr. Pence said.
