Representative Byron Donalds pleaded with potential jurors in Trump’s hush-money trial to vote “not guilty.”

Representative Byron Donalds pleaded with potential jurors in Trump’s hush-money trial to vote “not guilty.”

The Republican Party is all in on Donald Trump, so much so that at least one representative is trying to sway his legal proceedings.

Ahead of the start of the Republican presidential pick’s first criminal trial on Monday, Representative Byron Donalds pleaded with the people of Manhattan to give his party leader a break.

“My plea is to the people of Manhattan that may sit on this trial: Please do the right thing for this country,” the Florida congressman told Newsmax. “Everybody’s allowed to have their political viewpoints, but the law is supposed to be blind and no respecter of persons. This is a trash case, there is no crime here, and if there is any potential for a verdict, they should vote not guilty.”

  • @AbidanYreEnglish
    47•7 months ago

    The right thing for the country would be a guilty verdict for treason. And then the appropriate punishment.

    • quicklime
      28•7 months ago

      That’s in one of his other court cases. This is about the one where he paid a prostitute to keep quiet after he paid her for sex.

      • @EvilBit
        29•7 months ago

        Actually a good point was made recently that this is not about paying for sex or paying to hush a sex workers as much as it is about illegally using funds to influence election-specific matters. The fact that it’s all focused around a sex worker is just Trump’s specific flavor of illegal campaign finance.

        https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-trials-of-donald-trump-season

        • quicklime
          9•7 months ago

          Good point, and true; and the way I put it probably plays into the pattern of Trump voters thinking “well yeah, that’s morally questionable but not illegal and not worth this big of a systemic reaction.”

          I will adjust my mentions of this in the future.

      • iAmTheTot
        16•7 months ago

        To be clear, that was not the crime he is charged with. He’s charged with falsifying business records.

        • quicklime
          4•7 months ago

          (see other person’s same-level comment too)

          good point and true. Not the case where he’s going to be charged with treason, anyway, but you’re right, I should take care to refer to the case properly. Especially if my reason for commenting is to clarify which matter is being discussed!