WASHINGTON (AP) – A senior Senate Republican is calling the indictment of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort “an overreach.”
Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, a member of the Judiciary Committee, told reporters on Monday “frankly I’m having a rough time seeing why in the world they’re indicting him.”
Manafort and his business partner pleaded not guilty to felony charges of conspiracy against the United States and other counts.
Judiciary Committee Republicans and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell held a news conference Monday to talk about judicial nominees. Reporters tried to press them about the indictments in the probe of Russia’s meddling in last year’s election.
McConnell left before reporters had a chance to question him but Hatch said about the Manafort indictment: “I don’t see any reason for it right now.”
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