Trump has “warned the American people if we start weaponizing the judicial system like they did against him, that it could happen to any president it could happen to any political opponent,” she says.
Governor Kristi Noem (R-S.D.) said former President Donald Trump’s guilty verdict by a Manhattan jury on 34 counts of falsifying business records was due to a “rigged judicial process.”
“Well, his message has clearly been that his only vengeance will be America’s success,” Noem said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“He is not interested in going after political opponents. He is interested in going back to the White House and working for the American people and their families, bringing down inflation costs and that’s what I’m hearing overwhelmingly here in Wisconsin.”
She continued, “He’s warned the American people if we start weaponizing the judicial system like they did against him, that it could happen to any president it could happen to any political opponent.”
Noem also compared Republican-run areas where law and order leads to “peace and stability” to Democrat-run cities where violent crime is rampant and lawfare has tarnished the judicial system.
“He wants people to trust our judicial system. He wants to make sure that we still have law and order in this country. If you look at conservative areas of this country, places where Republicans were in control, we have law and order we have peace, stability,” Noem said.
“You go to Democrat states and cities that’s where you see destruction and you see judicial systems and trials and corrupt judges that prosecute their political enemies. That’s what New York was. New York, that was definitely a rigged judicial process against the president, politically motivated,” she added.
Judge Juan Merchan, who presided over the Manhattan trial, on Friday informed the defense and prosecutors in the case that a juror’s cousin had revealed the guilty verdict on social media one day ahead of time, prompting calls for a mistrial by Trump and other legal analysts.
? BREAKING: Judge Merchan sends letter to parties in NY Trump case notifying them that this comment was left on their Facebook page before the verdict:
“My cousin is a juror and says Trump is getting convicted & Thank you folks for all your hard work!!!!.” pic.twitter.com/u5SBuNQs6y
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) June 7, 2024
