Trump’s GOP primary rivals react to classified documents indictment
Posted on AllSides June 9th, 2023
From The Right
Former President Donald Trump’s unprecedented federal indictment over the mishandling of classified documents was met with mixed reactions from Republican primary rivals —with some expressing tepid condemnation while others blasted the prosecution as a “mortal threat to a free society.” The Justice Department was expected to make public a seven-count indictment charging the 76-year-old with willful retention of national defense information; conspiracy to obstruct justice; withholding a document or record; corruptly concealing a document or record; concealing a document in a federal investigation; scheme to conceal; and false statements and...