Republicans rage at Trump indictment in documents probe trends now

Congressional Republicans unloaded on the Justice Department in the minutes after former President Donald Trump was charge with mishandling classified documents and said he would report to a Miami courthouse Tuesday.

Senior Republicans immediately connected the prosecution to charges House Republicans have leveled at Biden family members based on sealed FBI documents based on tips that have yet to be released or verified.

'If the people in power can jail their political opponents at will, we don’t have a republic,' tweeted Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), coming to the defense of Trump, who led supporters in chants of 'lock her up' during the 2016 campaign. 

'DOJ indicts former President / candidate Trump SAME DAY DOJ/FBI restricts access to unnecessarily redacted Biden allegations And they wonder why ppl think there r two standards for justice,' fumed Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, a senior Judiciary Committee member, on Twitter.

Grassley has spent weeks joining Rep. James Comer, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, to press the FBI to hand over information containing allegations about Biden. 

The fury came as a source told DailyMail.con Trump has been indicted on seven counts of charges related to possession of classified documents and obstruction of justice.

The chair of the House Republican Conference, Rep. Elise Stefanik, a former Trump critic who has become a leading Trump loyalist, blasted the FBI and accused Biden of weaponizing the DOJ. She, too, made reference to the internal the FD-1023 document that the FBI shared with lawmakers this week. 

'The exact same day that the FBI is forced to turn over to Congress absolutely damning and credible allegations regarding Joe Biden’s illegal, egregious, and treasonous corruption, Joe Biden weaponizes his Department of

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