elected Republicans unite behind Donald Trump after his indictment

This is a first in the history of EUnited States: a former president is summoned to court on Tuesday April 4 to be served with a criminal charge, in the Stormy Daniels case. Donald Trump is suspected by the courts of having bought, for 130,000 dollars, the silence of this pornographic actress with whom he allegedly had an affair, by passing this expense off as campaign expenses, just before the 2016 presidential election. violation of the electoral finance code.

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The billionaire now has the Republican nomination for the 2024 election in mind. He was already the main candidate before being charged and is now the favorite, according to many observers. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg appears to have given him the biggest boost of his campaign. Republican elected officials are united behind Donald Trump. Declared or not, his adversaries for next year are denouncing his indictment and crying political scandal: from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to Nikki Haley, the former United States ambassador to the UN, via the former Vice President Mike Pence.

In total, on the Republican side, five senators and 37 elected members of the House of Representatives line up behind Donald Trump who, according to his entourage, spends a lot of time on the phone with two elected members of the House where the Republicans are now in the majority. Jim Jordan, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and Elise Stefanik, number three in the group, whom he pushes to counterattack by opening investigations into Joe Biden and prosecutor Alvin Bragg.