New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu slammed the GOP presidential field for not aggressively pouncing on former President Donald Trump's unprecedented 37-count indictment for allegedly mishandling classified documents.
Mr. Sununu, a Republican, said during a CNN appearance on Friday that Mr. Trump’s primary opponents were not appropriately seizing the opportunity presented by the indictment.
Mr. Sununu, who flirted with a White House run earlier this year, said that Mr. Trump’s opponents were striking almost a sympathetic tone by lambasting the indictment as the product of a politically weaponized justice system.Earlier this week, Mr. Trump was charged with a bevy of offenses, including 31 counts of willful retention of national defense information.
“Our laws that protect national defense information are critical to the safety and security of the United States and they must be enforced,” said Special Counsel Jack Smith, who brought the indictment against Mr. Trump. “Violations of those laws put our country at risk.”Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, perhaps Mr. Trump’s leading opponent, has questioned why the Justice Department has been “so zealous in pursuing Trump yet so passive about Hillary [Clinton] or Hunter [Biden].
Sen. Tim Scott, meanwhile, has said the indictment drew into question the integrity of America’s justice system.
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