<p>Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) during an interview over the weekend called for Congress to defund jurisdictions across the country that do not protect Americans&#8217; rights.</p>
<p>Donalds made the remarks while speaking to Peter Alexander on NBC News&#8217; &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; about Trump asking House Speaker Mike Johnson to overturn his conviction in Manhattan.</p>
<p>&#8220;One very important thing: It&#8217;s not about Speaker Johnson,&#8221; Donalds said. &#8220;He doesn&#8217;t have that power to overturn anything. But what it&#8217;s about is that Congress does fund a lot of jurisdictions around the country, and if there is a jurisdiction that takes federal money and it does not also protect the constitutional rights of all Americans, whether that&#8217;s President Trump or any other American, they shouldn&#8217;t receive federal funds.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I think that&#8217;s something that every American would agree with, and you do have to understand President Trump&#8217;s frustration,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;What happened in lower Manhattan was a violation of his constitutional rights. They didn&#8217;t even identify the &#8216;crime&#8217; until the very end of the process, which is a violation of constitutional norms. Judge Merchan did not do that. And so yes, he&#8217;s frustrated. Any American would be frustrated.&#8221;</p>
<p>Donalds said that the entire case was unconstitutional because &#8220;in the original indictment, they never identified an underlying crime.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Under our Bill of Rights, under our rule of law, a defendant is entitled to know what he&#8217;s being charged with,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Donald Trump was never afforded that ability, so how can his legal team prepare a defense if you don&#8217;t even know what the actual crime is? That is why what happened in lower Manhattan was so terrible. And the only time the prosecution could even assert a crime was at the end of the trace – of the case in closing arguments. You&#8217;re not allowed to do that.&#8221;</p>
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