Sen. Marsha Blackburn: The American people know the Trump verdict was 'a political setup from the top'

U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn is saying firmly that the American people will see through the corrupt prosecution of former President Donald Trump and once again elect him in November.

Reacting to the verdict Monday on Talk Radio 102.3’s “Yaffee Live,” Blackburn said the guilty verdict against Trump was unfair.

“It is something that is not equal treatment, equal access, equal justice under the law, and the American people are smart,” Blackburn (R-Tenn.) said. “They have watched this play out they know it was a witch hunt. They know that it was pretty much a political setup from the from the top.”

A New York jury convicted Donald Trump on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records Thursday. It was the first time in American history that a former President has ever been found guilty of a crime.

“And the reason they do that is because they know the FCC had looked at this years ago and said there’s no issue,” Blackburn continued. “So did the Department of Justice. They’ll get Cyrus Vance, who was the DA before Alvin Bragg, and Alvin Braddock had even passed on it until coming back around. And the number three from the Department of Justice, leaving the Department of Justice and going to Alvin Bragg’s office and leading the prosecutorial team on this. So people have looked at this. They know it’s not right. And here’s what we do know. The American people are showing up in record numbers to support President Trump.”

Blackburn also explained her and her Republican colleagues in the Senate plan to do in response to the “politicization of the justice system.”

“And right now, there are a couple of things that we’re doing,” she said. “We are going to further slow the Biden agenda and not allow them to move forward on some things that they are wanting to move forward on, such as judges or funding for any of these agencies that may be weaponized against American citizens. And we’re trying to build support for that, not only in the republican conference, but from Democratic colleagues. So they realize we are not going to stand by and let this happen.”

The senator was referring to a pledge she signed that said, “The White House has made a mockery of the rule of law and fundamentally altered our politics in un-American ways. As a Senate Republican conference, we are unwilling to aid and abet this White House in its project to tear this country apart.”

The White House’s weaponization of our government to target President Trump for political gain represents the pinnacle of two tiers of justice.

We cannot allow this grave injustice to prevail in the United States of America.

My Republican colleagues & I are taking a stand. pic.twitter.com/HmD2sTxHGl

— Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) May 31, 2024

Blackburn also said Trump’s victory will be the best “revenge” against the Democrats.

“I think that what you’re going to see is what President Trump said,” she argued, “winning is the best revenge, and being successful is going to be the best revenge…We were just talking about people who have come to President Trump because they know that what is happening is just not fair. So what they’re wanting to do is see the issues they are concerned about get addressed, the things that are politically motivated or weaponizing the government so I think that’s one of the things that people have really risen up against, and are saying, ‘No, we don’t like that we’re the United States of America. We do not weaponize the government entity, local, state or federal against our opponents.’

“And I think people are very unnerved about this,” Sen. Blackburn said.

Yaffee is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts “The Yaffee Program” weekdays 9-11 a.m. on WVNN. You can follow him on X @Yaffee