Congresswoman Cori Bush was in St. Louis on Thursday afternoon when the verdict finding former President Donald Trump guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
At a Friday morning event at the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis, Bush said Trump “should not be able to be the [presidential] nominee for the Republican Party.”
“No one is above the law. At the end of the day, we all have to be responsible for our actions.
Bush joined Urban League President Michael P. McMillan in celebrating a $750,000 federal investment for renovations and capital improvements to the Urban League Plaza property, which is focused on supporting Black-owned small business enterprises.
“The Urban League has been a pillar of strength and support for the St. Louis community,” she said.
“I am grateful to the entire Urban League family. They are out knocking on doors, out in the streets sweating [and] paving the way for brighter futures.’
McMillan said Bush offered to assist the Urban League Plaza renovation “when she saw it.”
“She said, ‘I want to be here for you,’” said McMillan.
Trump sentencing
Trump will be sentenced on July 11, four days before the Republican National Convention. He faces penalties from a fine to four years in prison on each count, although it’s expected he would be sentenced for the offenses concurrently, not consecutively.
“The unanimous verdict by the New York jury marks the first time in American history that a former U.S. president has been found guilty of a crime,” said Word In Black contributor Keith Boykin.
“Despite Trump’s claim that Black people will relate to his legal troubles, we remember how Trump failed to relate to the Black and brown teenagers in the Central Park 5 case that he tried to execute and never apologized after they were exonerated,” he said.
National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) Chair Bobby Henry stated, “the criminal justice system worked.”
“As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. alluded to, the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
