House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) came to former President Donald Trump’s defense Thursday after Trump announced the Justice Department had indicted him in a special counsel probe over classified documents.
“Today is indeed a dark day for the United States of America,” McCarthy wrote in a statement on Twitter, calling news of the historic federal indictment “unconscionable” because it was made against the 2024 Republican presidential frontrunner.
The speaker also raised the discovery from earlier this year of documents with classified markings found at President Joe Biden’s office and home from when Biden was vice president, which the Justice Department is also probing through a special counsel.
