Here’s what DeSantis, Christie and other Trump 2024 rivals are saying about the Georgia indictment

[Romanos]

Donald Trump’s biggest detractors in the 2024 Republican presidential race offered mixed reactions Tuesday to the former president’s indictment by a Georgia grand jury.

Trump has remained defiant in the face of the new charges against him and 18 others stemming from their efforts to overturn his 2020 electoral defeat. He now faces four separate indictments at the same time that he’s running for president as the front-runner for the GOP nomination.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/15/politics/2024-trump-rivals-georgia-indictment/index.html

 

[Albion]

Did these also-rans come unequivocally to the defense of Trump and the 18 other public servants currently under indictment? Well, no. That's with the possible exception of Vivek Ramaswamy, about whom most people know little. And he published his response on "X," formerly Twitter:

"...it’s fair game for him to do the same in defense: immediately file a motion to dismiss for a constitutional due process violation for publicly issuing an indictment before the grand jury had actually signed one. He should make a strong argument on these grounds & it would send a powerful message to the ever-expansive prosecutorial police state. As someone who’s running for President against Trump, I’d volunteer to write the amicus brief to the court myself: prosecutors should not be deciding U.S. presidential elections, and if they’re so overzealous that they commit constitutional violations, then the cases should be thrown out & they should be held accountable."