Rep. Dan Goldman’s Statement on Trump Prosecuting Rep. LaMonica McIver

“Patriotic Americans must not be fooled: by charging a sitting member of Congress on completely bogus charges, the Trump Administration is weaponizing the Department of Justice in an unprecedented way to silence and intimidate his political opposition.  

  

“This is how banana republics and authoritarian dictatorships work, not the oldest democracy in the world.  

  

“My Republican colleagues may be drunk on their own power and convinced of their own baseless accusations of the last administration’s weaponization of the federal government, but their cowardice as President Trump lawlessly attacks their own institution will be a permanent stain on each and every one of them. I recommend that they stand up to this tyranny before it is too late or one of them becomes a defendant in a criminal prosecution.