Former US Attorney General Barr slammed Manhattan DA’s Alvin Bragg’s hush money criminal case against Trump as prosecutorial abuse and a partisan hit job that strengthens the Democrats&…
“I don’t think it [the indictment] has any merit. I think it’s transparently an abuse of prosecutorial power to accomplish a political end,” Barr, who headed the Justice Department under Trump,Trump, 76, the first US president ever to be indicted,in Manhattan Supreme Court last week to 34 felony counts of falsifying business documents in connection to alleged “hush money” payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election.
After reading the “opaque” indictment, Barr said he was baffled as to what crime was allegedly committed.Getty Images “I don’t see anywhere specified here what the fraud was. These were his own business records… He’s the owner of the company,” Barr said. “I think if [Bragg] has a good case he would specify exactly what his case is. But he’s tried to hide the ball.”
Meanwhile, a lawyer on Trump’s defense team, James Trusty, said motions will be filed early on to have the case dismissed to undo “this miscarriage of justice.”“The issue with venue is that Manhattan was like 87% pro-Joe Biden in the last election. It’s a real stronghold of liberalism, of activism, and that infects the whole process,”
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