‘Corrupt To The Core!’ Top House Republican Rages At How Jury Selection Works

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), the fourth-highest ranking Republican in the House, raged at the New York City jury selection process following Donald Trump’s conviction.

Last month, the former president was convicted unanimously by a Manhattan jury on 34 counts of fabricating business records relating to hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 election. He is the first time former president to be convicted of a felony and could face up to four years in prison.

During a speech at the Faith & Freedom Conference on Friday, Stefanik slammed Trump’s conviction, claiming “radical district attorneys like Alvin Bragg are targeting President Joe Biden’s “chief political opponent.”

Stefanik added that the jury process in New York “is corrupt to the core” and went after Judge Juan Merchan for the “illegal lawfare court case.”

We’re seeing the illegal weaponization of our courts and radical district attorneys like Alvin Bragg, going after Joe Biden’s chief political opponent, that is Donald J. Trump. It is a form of election interference. It is illegal. It is unconstitutional. We must do everything we can as the American people to make sure that we restore equal justice under the law, that we stand up against this radicalization, this corruption of our courts.

I’ve been proud as a member of the New York Delegation and just a proud New Yorker to file ethics complaints against Alvin Bragg, the corrupt process, the jury selection process. Think about this. It is so corrupt that in the jury selection process, the jurors were asked, Do you follow any social media accounts of President Donald J. Trump? If any of them said yes, they were not allowed to serve on the jury. They were not asked that about Joe Biden.

They jury shopped, and then they illegally judge shopped. The fact that this is a judge that donated to Joe Biden, it is corrupt, corrupt to the core! On top of that, the judges direct family members are some of the chief fundraisers for radical Democrats like Adam Schiff fundraising off of this illegal lawful court case going after President Donald J. Trump. We must save our country at the ballot box this November. It will be the American people that save the Constitution and save this country and fight back.

The New York jury selection process followed standard procedures used across the country and involved both Trump’s legal team and the prosecution weighing in on prospective jurors, who ended up having a wide cross-section of social media habits and media diets.

Watch the clip above via CSPAN.