Staten Island Reporter

(NEW YORK, NY) - Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis (NY-11) today released a statement regarding the verdict in the trial against former President Donald Trump.

“Today’s verdict is a complete but sadly unsurprising miscarriage of justice, and we knew all along that in the borough of Manhattan, where more than 86% of the population rejected President Trump, that he would not have a fair trial of his peers," Malliotakis stated.

She continued, "What Alvin Bragg and the Democrats have accused President Trump of doing in 2016 — conspiring to promote or prevent the election of a person to public office by unlawful means — is exactly what the Democrats themselves have done with this political prosecution. They concocted and conspired this entire witch-hunt and weaponized our judicial system to interfere with the election and prevent President Trump from being reelected in November."

Malliotakis expressed her concerns about the broader implications for the country's judicial principles: "This is an unprecedented, sad, and downright scary day for our country, which at its core has the principle of innocent until PROVEN guilty with actual EVIDENCE. Too many Americans who came here from other countries fled the exact same type of judicial abuses, and now is the time for all freedom-loving Americans to rally around President Trump because we cannot allow what happens in third world, socialist countries to happen here."

She concluded with confidence about future proceedings: "I’m confident that upon appeal, these charges will be overturned and come November, voters will see through this charade and the other attempts to block President Trump from retaking the White House. They understand that the Biden-Harris Administration and their radical-left allies will do and say anything to deflect from their failed policies that have resulted in out-of-control crime, runaway inflation, wide open borders and a foreign policy that has made America and our world less safe."