Former Attorney General Bill Barr called the Manhattan District Attorney Office’s controversial decision to indict former President Donald Trump an 'abuse of the prosecutive function.'
Former Attorney General Bill Barr called the Manhattan District Attorney Office’s controversial decision to indict former President Donald Trump an"abuse of the prosecutive function."
"It’s the very essence of the abuse of the prosecutive function, which is pursuing a person rather than pursuing a real crime," Barr said to Fox News Sunday host Shannon Bream on Sunday."I think the American people see that." "The case lacks any legal basis. It’s pursuing somebody — there’s nothing inherently wrong or illegal about making a hush payment. They’re saying he falsified the corporate record. But for that to even be a misdemeanor, you have to be trying to defraud somebody. It’s unclear who was defrauded. This is his own company. Finally, and most importantly from the federal standpoint, the idea that this was a campaign finance violation is simply wrong. It’s wrong on the law," he argued.
"[Bragg] wouldn’t be able to survive the statute of limitation and not be able to juice what is a misdemeanor into a felony without claiming that there’s a violation of federal law. So he’s the one that has essentially weighed into the federal arena," he explained to Bream.Barr called the indictment"a watershed moment" and blamed the"corruption of the media" for creating a"mob mentality in our country" instead of being"the restraint on mob thinking.
Trump was indicted by a grand jury on Thursday. He is the first former president in U.S. history to be indicted.
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