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Rick Scott likens Trump indictment to tactics of Cuban, Venezuelan dictators
June 13, 2023 1:03PM ET
Senator Rick Scott speaking with attendees at the 2021 Student Action Summit. (Gage Skidmore)
MIAMI — U.S. Sen. Rick Scott, with the bolstering of human rights activists and former political prisoners from Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, accused the Biden administration of utilizing a tactic commonly found in dictator playbooks: Weaponizing the legal system to go after the president’s opponents. Scott was referring to last week’s indictment of former President Donald Trump, who is facing 37 federal charges related to keeping hundreds of classified documents in his possession after he left the White House in January 2021. Trump will be arraigned in federal court in Miami Tuesday afternoo...