Donald Trump indicted: GOP Rep slams Trump for actions just like Hillary, says 'Nobody is above the legislation'

Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) slammed former President Donald Trump on Friday, evaluating the previous president's current indictment to actions by former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

Bacon implied Trump's alleged mishandling of categorised paperwork was just like Clinton's alleged storage of categorised emails on her pc server.

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"As a retired brigadier common who labored with categorised supplies my complete profession, I'm shocked on the alleged callousness of how these paperwork had been dealt with," Bacon stated in a assertion. "They need to not have been saved at his residence and will have been utterly handed over when the federal government requested."

Bacon continued: "The alleged obstruction of the Nationwide Archives and FBI, if true, is inexcusable. I'm the identical one who criticized Hillary Clinton for knowingly and willfully storing 1000's of categorised emails on her unclassified pc, and thought the DOJ failed at holding her accountable. I imagine in utilizing the identical requirements, and ask the DOJ to do the identical. Nobody is above the legislation, and we demand due course of and anticipate equality underneath the legislation."

Clinton has been accused of utilizing a private e-mail server to deal with categorised data whereas she was secretary of state throughout former President Barack Obama's administration. However after investigating, the FBI by no means charged Clinton for utilizing the server.

Trump, who has been indicted on 37 costs associated to the categorised doc scandal, additionally blasted the previous secretary on Friday in a put up on Reality Social.

"Hillary Clinton deleted 33,000 emails, a lot of them Categorized, and no person did something about it," Trump posted. "I DID NOTHING WRONG, and bought criminally charged!"

Greater than 300 categorised paperwork had been recovered from Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort final yr, however the costs heart on 31 of the paperwork.

Trump will seem on the U.S. District Court docket for the Southern District of Florida on Tuesday, June 13, the place he's anticipated to plead "not responsible" to the costs.