Now, having a former President found guilty of criminal conduct is a sad day for our Nation.
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They don't seem to understand that they were elected to serve their constituents, not the disgraced, twice impeached, and now convicted leader of the party.
Over and over again this Congress we have seen House Republicans set aside congressional work--the people's business--to do the former President's bidding.
If Donald Trump, as the jury unanimously found, covered up 2016 conduct of a pattern that we saw again in 2020, and we see him limbering up for in 2024, then he deserves to be found guilty.
This is the person who you all chose to hang out with this morning, delaying the original start time of our hearing, because rather than getting work done for people who need us to work, you chose a felon over helping families.
Are you kidding me? Donald Trump is complaining about bias in his case, and he is on trial for stealing national security documents with a judge that he appointed?
Four hundred and eight straight times they said the word 'guilty.'
After that jury of his peers, his neighbors, deliberated they had to make 34 decisions. Twelve jurors, 34 decisions.
Hey, guys, might want to get your hands up. You were hanging out with convicted felon Donald Trump. I don't think anyone on our side did. That's why we are here.
Donald Trump represents the most grave danger to this country at least since the end of Jim Crow.
Have we ever seen one party or the other so completely abandon oath to the Constitution?
What is the animating idea of a Trump Presidency? It is dictatorship.
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Can democracy survive if the rule of law is eroded?
Now, Ambassador Eisen, can you please talk about these increased threats to public officials as well as distrust in the system, how harmful both of those could be to our country's independent judiciary and really our democracy?
Just to make things clear, it is fair to say that President Biden himself was not involved in this case?
Now, some of my colleagues say the Department of Justice, a Federal agency that is part of the Biden Administration, somehow directed the Manhattan District Attorney to indict Mr. Trump in a New York State case.
Now, some of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle claim the verdict against the ex-President is--and these are all quotes, ``a travesty,'' ``rigged,'' and ``a sham,'' that the jury of peers who assembled to do their civic duty…