
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.