Donald Trump In Federal Court: Here's What Key GOP Figures Are Saying About The Classified Docs Indictment

History is being made on Tuesday, as Donald Trump, the first former president to face criminal charges in a court of law, is at a Miami courthouse for arraignment in a second criminal case.

Although Trump is now facing 37 criminal counts related to the alleged mishandling of classified documents found at his Mar-A-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, he's still standing behind his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election.

Trump has vowed to use judicial resources to go after Joe Biden if he returns to the Oval Office. His niece was recently quoted saying that Trump "lives in fear" over the federal case’s outcome.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who challenged Trump for the presidency in 2016 as the Democratic nominee, bashed Republicans Tuesday who she said "refuse to read the indictment," and "refuse to engage with the facts." Clinton made the remarks to the hosts of the "Pod Save America" podcast.

Recent polls of Republican voters show that Trump continues to be the favorite candidate for the GOP, but has lost some support in favor of competing Republican candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis since the indictments became public.

What The GOP Is Saying About Trump’s Indictment

Members of the Republican party show a divided stance when speaking about the former president's legal troubles. DeSantis and former Vice President Mike Pence, who are Trump's most formidable competitors for the party's candidacy, spoke out against the indictment,along with other Republican presidential hopefuls.

GOP presidential candidate and U.S. Sen. Tim Scott called the charges "the weaponization of the Department of Justice.”

Nikki Haley, another GOP presidential candidate and former UN ambassador under Trump, said on Monday that "If this indictment is true, President Trump was incredibly reckless with our national security," but still expressed uncertainty over the veracity of the charges.

Not all key GOP figures are defending Trump.

Anthony Scaramucci, former White House communications director under Trump, said that Trump is "stressed" about the trial and will most likely drop out of the presidential race.

Scaramucci gave an interview on NewsNation's "Cuomo" where he also predicted that Trump won't end up in prison, even if found guilty.

"I think he ends up coming up with some type of Spiro Agnew-like plea where he's out, doesn't go to jail," he said in reference to Richard Nixon’s Vice President Spiro Agnew, who agreed to drop his political role upon tax evasion charges in 1973, but wound up avoiding prison.

Several GOP senators shared concern about the seriousness behind Special Counsel Jack Smith's allegations that led to Trump's second criminal indictment in Florida, reported The Hill.

Senate Republican Whip John Thune said that "there are very serious allegations in the indictment," and the Justice Department has got "a high burden of proof to convince people that they're handling this fairly and as they would for any other elected official." 

He proceeded to say that, contrary to the charges levied against Trump in Manhattan in April, these charges didn't seem as politically motivated.

He was echoed by Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who said "the charges in this case are quite serious and cannot be casually dismissed."

Utah Republican Sen. Mitt Romney added that, if proven true, the allegation "would be consistent with [Trump's] other actions offensive to the national interest, such as withholding defensive weapons from Ukraine for political reasons and failing to defend the Capitol from violent attack and insurrection."

Texas Republican Senator John Cornyn also distanced himself from Trump by saying that "his unwillingness to appeal to voters beyond his base makes it unlikely that he could win a general election."

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell refused to either stand for or against Trump when asked by reporters about the indictment.