(Waukegan, IL) – Lake County State’s Attorney Eric Rinehart issued the following statement today after former President Donald Trump was found guilty on 34 felony counts related to falsifying business records.

“We can’t have safe communities when one political party aggressively and disingenuously attacks the courts and electoral authorities when they disagree with an outcome. Republicans up and down the ballot have a choice: tell extremists to stop attacking the legal system over a jury’s verdict or continue to allow these conspiracy theories to grow until we have another January 6. Locally, I am disheartened to hear the Illinois Republican Party continue Trump’s attack on judges and prosecutors.”

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