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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Lynn Sweet

Trump’s defenders, including Rep. Mary Miller from Illinois, attack Manhattan DA Bragg

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (L) leaves his office in New York on Thursday. A New York grand jury has voted to indict former President Donald Trump over hush money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election. Trump called the case a “political persecution.” (Photo by ED JONES/AFP via Getty Images)

WASHINGTON — The newly indicted Donald Trump and his allies — in Illinois, most notably Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., — are in overdrive trying to discredit the Manhattan prosecutor leading the criminal case against the former president.

Miller, from a district in far southern Illinois, said in a statement, “The partisan Manhattan D.A. is leading a political witch-hunt to punish Joe Biden’s political opponents instead of getting justice for actual crime victims in the increasingly violent New York City,” Miller said. “Every American should be concerned about this blatant political weaponization of the justice system. 

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