Less than an hour after a jury convicted Donald Trump of 34 felonies, Sen. Tim Scott released a one-minute video of himself condemning the outcome. That wouldn’t be especially notable — the South Carolina Republican clearly wants to be his party’s vice presidential nominee, making such antics unavoidable — except the senator blamed President Joe Biden for the prosecution.
“Joe Biden’s injustice,” Scott claimed. “Joe Biden’s two-tier injustice system. Weaponizing the justice system of the United States of America against a political opponent? Un-American.”
The rhetoric was plainly nonsensical, even by 2024 standards. There’s literally no evidence of the White House being involved in the case, just as there’s literally no evidence of the White House weaponizing the justice system. Scott is hardly the only Republican peddling this ridiculous and borderline dangerous rhetoric, but the repetition only makes it worse.
As HuffPost noted over the weekend, even one of Trump’s former lawyers marveled at the inanity.
Former Trump attorney Joe Tacopina knocked Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) for his “uneducated, unintelligent” claim that President Joe Biden is “weaponizing the justice system” on Saturday.
Asked to respond to Scott’s absurd claims, Tacopina, during an appearance on MSNBC, specifically said, “I sort of lost a lot of respect from what I just heard because he sounded so uneducated, unintelligent and made no sense at all.”
Trump’s former lawyer went on to say, “So to say that Joe Biden brought this case is one of the most ridiculous things I’ve heard. We know that’s not the case, and even Trump’s lawyers know that’s not the case.”








