Senators and Congressmen react to Trump conviction
Reactions to the Trump verdict from local senators and congressmen, from left to right, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, Rep. Steve Cohen, Sen. Bill Hagerty and Rep. David Kustoff. (The Daily Memphian file)
The city’s two U.S. senators and two congressmen had very different reactions to the former president’s conviction Thursday, May 30, in New York on all counts of falsifying business records.
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