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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
John Bowden

‘These people will pay’: Outrage from Trump loyalists on Capitol Hill pours in after indictment drops

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Donald Trump’s Republican allies in Congress seethed with rage over the news that a grand jury had voted on Thursday to indict the former president on one or more charges related to his hush payments to women in 2016.

As the news broke late Thursday afternoon, lawmakers who had left Washington just earlier in the day reacted with fury and bought fully into Mr Trump’s explanation for the yet-to-be-announced indictment: A supposed political hit job by Democrats.

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