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Salon
Politics
Nicholas Liu

GOP lawmakers skip vote for Trump trial

Congress is in session, but a slew of GOP politicians are snubbing their legislative duties to show up at Donald Trump's ongoing hush money trial in New York.

Whether auditioning to be his running mate pick or simply currying favor with the Republican presidential nominee and his supporters, the attendant Republicans have all followed a similar pattern of sitting behind Trump during the trial, wishing him good luck, and railing against the prosecution, judge, witnesses, and jurors to the press and anyone else who will listen.

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