Rick Scott: Trump’s Trial Was “Scariest Time In My Life”

Florida Politics reports:

U.S. Sen. Rick Scott has faced legal questions before, specifically regarding his former health care company and Medicare billing anomalies.

But despite pleading the Fifth Amendment 75 times during that case — along with serving in the Navy, spending eight years as Florida’s Governor and living through poverty as a child — Florida’s junior Senator says Donald Trump’s current trial makes him more fearful than any personal experience ever did.

“It’s the scariest time in my lifetime to watch a friend be persecuted,” Scott said on the Hugh Hewitt show. “When you hear that they were allowed to use lethal force, to go pick up documents at Mar-a-Lago, this is a scary time. And if we don’t change this, then there’s not one American that’s safe.”

Read the full article. Scott has been scurrying in recent days to burnish his MAGA cred because he hopes to succeed McConnell as Senate GOP leader.

‘And if we don’t change this, then there’s not one American that’s safe.”

‘The scariest time of my life’ is how @SenRickScott describes @RealDonaldTrump hush money trial.

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