Ex-GOP Rep Likens Trump's Court Supporters To Jan. 6 'Insidiousness': 'Grave Threat'

Former Rep. David Jolly slammed GOP members of Congress for challenging "democracy" at the Trump hush money trial.

Former Rep. David Jolly (R-Fla.) spotted shades of the “insidiousness” that led to the deadly Capitol riot on display as House Republicans traveled to New York to back former President Donald Trump at his hush money trial on Thursday.

His comments arrive after Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) and other Republican lawmakers showed their support for the presumptive GOP presidential nominee outside the Manhattan courthouse.

Jolly, in an interview with “Deadline White House” host Nicolle Wallace, slammed House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) for his earlier visit to the active trial and others who followed him there to essentially “try to interfere with the administration of justice.”

“To tell the American people that the courts now are corrupt, to try to undermine the judiciary. To see the members of the House do that is a grave threat,” said Jolly, an MSNBC analyst and staunch critic of the former president.

He continued, “It is part of the insidiousness that leads to Jan. 6, to suggest that because law and order can not be trusted, we then have to take this into our own hands. They might be wearing blue suits and white shirts and red ties but each one of them might as well be carrying the pitchforks and the bats that we saw on Jan. 6 because they are challenging democracy in that courtroom just as much as the protesters on Jan. 6 were.”