Republican Senators James Lankford (OK) and Tim Scott (SC) shruged off Friday’s verdict against Donald Trump — who was ordered to pay $83 million in damages for defaming the woman he was previously found liable for sexually abusing.

ABC News’ Martha Raddatz interviewed Scott on Sunday for This Week, and she started with Friday’s verdict where a federal jury awarded E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million in her defamation lawsuit against the former president. Scott has been stumping for Trump since endorsing his re-election earlier this month, so Raddatz confronted him with Carroll’s legal action against Trump and asked “Does that give you any pause in your support?”

“Myself and all the voters that support Donald Trump, supports a return to normalcy as relates to what affects our kitchen table,” Scott answered. “The average person in our country, they’re not talking about lawsuits. As a matter of fact, what I have seen, however, is that the perception that the legal system is being weaponized against Donald Trump is actually increasing his poll numbers.”

Pointing out that verdicts were handed down by jurors of Trump’s peers, Raddatz followed up and asked “That gives you no pause whatsoever?”

Scott’s response:

Democrats don’t pause when they think about Hunter Biden and the challenges that he brings to his father. The one thing that I think the electorate is thinking about most often is how in the world will the next president impact my quality of life? How will America regain its standing in this world? They were better off under Trump…

Scott’s indifference was echoed on Face The Nation when CBS’ Margaret Brennan concluded her interview with Lankford by asking him for his thoughts about the Carroll verdict.

“Does it give you any pause about him returning to office?” She asked.

His answer: “It doesn’t.”

Obviously, these are legal cases. I don’t want to jump in the middle of a legal case. It’s been interesting the number of legal cases that have come up against President Trump and then have failed and had been dropped or had been kicked out of the courts on it. This one’s actually went through. He’s already said he’s going to challenge it. So let the courts actually make their decisions and let the American people make their decisions. We got states like Colorado that are trying to be able to block the people of Colorado from being able to choose who they vote for. Let the American people decide this in November.

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