Stefanik Steps Up: GOP Conference Chair Blasts Trump 'Witch Hunt' and 'Corrupt DOJ'

House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-NY) has been a very vocal proponent of former President and 2024 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump. The New York Rep. blasted the Bidens and the corrupt DOJ in a statement this week as the Trump witch hunt rolls on.

House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik’s Statement on the Continued Witch Hunt By Biden’s Corrupt DOJ Against President Trump

WASHINGTON D.C.- Today, House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik released the following statement:

“The American people understand that Joe Biden and his Administration are engulfed in one of the biggest political corruption scandals of all time. It is no coincidence that the day after a federal judge throws out Hunter Biden’s corrupt, sweetheart plea bargain, Biden’s weaponized DOJ continues its witchhunt against President Trump. Our Republic is in peril, our justice system is broken. House Republicans will continue our work to investigate the Biden crime family and leave no stone unturned in order to deliver accountability on behalf of the American people.”

My full statement on the continued witch hunt by Biden’s corrupt DOJ against President Trump: pic.twitter.com/ADnVxMVKVs

— Elise Stefanik (@EliseStefanik) July 27, 2023

From The Hill:

In a superseding indictment filed on Thursday night, the Justice Department accused the former president of attempting to delete surveillance footage at his Mar-a-Lago property, with the help of co-defendant Walt Nauta and Carlos de Oliveira, the hotel’s property manager and a new defendant in the case.

The new indictment, which includes an additional Espionage Act charge over a military document that Trump boasted of having at a 2021 meeting, brings the total numbers of charges against the former president to 40. He pleaded not guilty to the original 37-count indictment last month.

Like Stefanik, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) also accused the Justice Department on Thursday of attempting to distract from Hunter Biden’s plea deal, which was placed on hold on Wednesday.

“Is it any coincidence that the DOJ rushes to add these new indictments today, after the Hunter debacle, after their own self-dealing and two-timing is exposed, after they tried to us the true extent of this plea deal,” Hawley said.

“That gets blown up, and then it’s like, ‘Oh well, we’ve got to go indict Trump on something else,’” he added.