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Rod Blagojevich stated on May 28, 2018 in a Wall Street Journal op-ed:
"I’m in prison for practicing politics."
By John Chase, Bob Secter• May 29, 2018
Marco Rubio stated on January 27, 2021 in remarks:
"Only in the Third World do you see this habitual use of prosecutions of former leaders.”
By Miriam Valverde• January 29, 2021
Rand Paul stated on November 10, 2019 in an interview on Meet the Press:
President Donald Trump's phone call with the Ukrainian president "sounds exactly like what Joe Biden did."
By Amy Sherman• November 11, 2019
Facebook posts stated on November 27, 2021 in Facebook post:
Omicron 'hysteria' was timed so that it would coincide with and distract from the Ghislaine Maxwell trial.
By Jeff Cercone• November 30, 2021
Tim McGinty stated on February 17, 2016 in his campaign website:
"We are almost halfway to our goal of 1,000 rapes prosecuted!"  
By Nadia Pflaum• February 17, 2016
Nancy Grace stated on March 24, 2014 in an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America":
Premeditation, in murder cases like the Oscar Pistorius case, "can be formed in the twinkling of an eye."
By Katie Sanders• March 31, 2014
Bill White stated on October 15, 2010 in an interview.:
Says that under Gov. Rick Perry, Texas Department of Public Safety troopers have had "standing orders" not to inquire into the immigration status of people unless they're under arrest.
By W. Gardner Selby• November 1, 2010
Pam Bondi stated on December 29, 2025 in an X post:
The Justice Department has been investigating fraud in Minnesota “for months. So far, we have charged 98 individuals.”
By Amy Sherman• January 8, 2026
Arizona Democratic Party stated on September 13, 2022 in a tweet:
Abraham Hamadeh misled "about his legal experience.”
By Alexis Waiss• October 18, 2022
Donald Trump stated on May 02, 2024 in remarks to reporters:
“I’m not allowed to testify” because of a gag order.
By Amy Sherman• May 3, 2024
Kari Lake stated on March 13, 2022 in an interview with 60 Minutes Australia:
Jan. 6 defendants “are being held in prison without being charged.”
By Amy Sherman• March 17, 2022
Donald Trump stated on April 16, 2024 in statement to the media in New York City:
“This trial that I have now, that’s a Biden trial.”
By Amy Sherman• April 19, 2024
New York City Police Benevolent Association stated on December 02, 2019 in a Tweet:
"Defendants charged with producing, directing or promoting an obscene sexual performance by a child will be arraigned & set free." 
By Jill Terreri Ramos• December 22, 2019
Jerrold Nadler stated on November 19, 2021 in Twitter:
Kyle Rittenhouse was an “armed person” crossing state lines when he came to Kenosha protests in 2020.
By Laura Schulte• November 26, 2021
Greg Steube stated on December 04, 2019 in a House judiciary committee hearing:
"We provided terrorists in Iraq more rights and due process in the Central Criminal Court of Iraq" than House Democratic leadership has afforded President Donald Trump in the impeachment inquiry.
By Amy Sherman• December 10, 2019
Facebook posts stated on September 09, 2022 in a Facebook post:
Under new Illinois law, these crimes are “nondetainable": “Burglary, robbery, arson, kidnapping, DUI offenses, even DUI involving a fatality, most drug offenses, and even 2nd degree murder.”
By Jeff Cercone• September 14, 2022
Instagram posts stated on June 20, 2023 in an Instagram post:
“Biden administration quietly DROPS all charges against Sam Bankman-Fried.”
By Loreben Tuquero• June 26, 2023
Michael Moore stated on September 28, 2011 in an interview on "Democracy Now":
"Not a single banker, a CEO from Wall Street, anyone from corporate America — nobody, (there was) not one arrest of any of these people who brought down the economy in 2008."
By Angie Drobnic Holan• October 7, 2011
Mark Begich stated on August 29, 2014 in a campaign ad:
Says Dan Sullivan approved a "light sentence" for a sex offender who got out of prison and is now charged with a gruesome murder and sexual assault.
By Lauren Carroll• September 3, 2014
Jesse Watters stated on May 28, 2024 in a segment of "Jesse Watters Primetime" on Fox News:
Judge Juan Merchan “overrules every objection from the defense and sustains every objection from the prosecution” during former President Donald Trump’s New York trial.
By Madison Czopek• May 31, 2024

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