Lee Responds To Jack Smith Prosecution Of Trump During RNC: It ‘Might Be Helping The Democrat Party’

2 months ago

During an event by the Heritage Foundation, during the Republican National Convention, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) answered moderator questions on Jack Smith's prosecution against former President Donald Trump.

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00:00But, just speaking completely apolitically, I just want to put an exclamation point on

00:06what you just said, Senator Lee, because the use of our courts to go after political opponents,

00:11yes, that has political ramifications.

00:13It might be helping the Democrat Party or hurting the Democrat Party.

00:16But what it does to the country is, it's just, there's no way you can defend using courts

00:22to go after political opponents.

00:24It's what we associate with the Soviet Union, with Venezuela, with third world countries.

00:29Not our country.

00:31And it's not just Jack Smith, who is under Joe Biden's authority, who is doing this.

00:37But really, there are municipalities and places throughout the country that are using courts

00:42to settle political differences.

00:44And I do think that if people truly want to preserve the republic and tone down, lower

00:51the temperature, they would immediately, as in by the end of today, stop all of those

00:57cases.

00:58Immediately.

00:59Immediately.

01:00And in fact, just a few weeks ago, my wife Sharon and I were in a couple of Latin American

01:07countries.

01:08And in both countries, we heard from their leaders, this is not the sort of thing we

01:15expect from the United States.

01:17And it's the sort of thing that if we did, we would expect to be sanctioned by the United

01:22States for doing what was just done to President Trump.

01:28And the other thing they said, one of the, the head of state, this is a private conversation

01:32so I'm not going to communicate exactly who it was, but he said, look, we are supposed

01:39to be following your lead, not you following our lead.

01:43And that's what's happened.

Lee Responds To Jack Smith Prosecution Of Trump During RNC: It ‘Might Be Helping The Democrat Party’

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