Posted on 04/21/2024 9:52:56 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Former Attorney General Bill Barr called Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s hush-money case against former President Donald Trump an “abomination” on Wednesday.
Additionally, Barr revealed, despite past differences and concerns about a Trump second term, that he plans to vote for the presumptive GOP nominee in November.
Regarding Bragg’s charges against Trump, Barr told Fox News, “I’ve said from the beginning this case is an abomination. You know it’s obviously political, seven years after he pays hush money, to try to come up with this case.”
“It’s not only far-fetched, they’re trying to predicate it on a federal crime, which wasn’t prosecuted. And they’re wrong about it. This was not a campaign contribution. They’re just wrong on the law,” the former Trump AG added.
The apparent theory of Bragg’s case is that then-Trump personal attorney Michael Cohen made an in-kind contribution to the Trump presidential campaign in excess of federal limits.
According to Bragg, Cohen paid porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000 as part of a nondisclosure agreement ahead of the 2016 presidential election. Nondisclosure agreements are very common and generally legal. Daniels has alleged that she and Trump had a sexual encounter in 2006.
The $130,000 didn’t go to, nor did the alleged reimbursement come from, Trump’s presidential campaign. Cohen was reimbursed by the Trump Organization in early 2017, according to Bragg’s indictment.
Prior to Bragg’s indictment, federal prosecutors and the Federal Election Commission had already reviewed the payments to Daniels and declined to charge Trump.
Barr observed that Bragg’s case against Trump is part of a larger problem.
“To me, this shows the real threat to liberty, the real threat to our system are the excesses of the progressive left. They’re perverting the system of justice and that’s where the danger lies: the corruption and the subversion of our institutions by the left,” he said.
Asked whether he would support Trump for president, Barr responded, “Well, I’ve said all along, given two bad choices, I think it’s my duty to pick the person I think would do the least harm to the country, and in my mind, I will vote the Republican ticket. I will support the Republican ticket.”
“I think the real danger to our country, the real danger to democracy is … the progressive agenda,” he emphasized.
With Trump, the United States “may be playing Russian roulette, but continuation of the Biden administration is national suicide,” Barr said.
Several legal experts have called Bragg’s case against Trump weak.
George Washington University Law School professor Jonathan Turley described it as a “Frankenstein case” based on resurrected alleged misdemeanor business record violations.
“So many of us are just amazed to watch this actually walk into court, because it’s not a recognizable crime that any of us have seen,” he said.
Former federal prosecutor Andy McCarthy argued in a Monday piece for National Review, “Trump’s best defense … is not necessarily to establish that he is not guilty; rather, it is to establish that, if he is guilty of anything, it is merely of the misdemeanor. If the jury so finds, I believe the case would have to be thrown out.”
WAY too late @hole.
You need to go share a cell with that former POTUS candidate Avanti [sic].
I suspect Barr knows this well.
Faint praise from a 2 faced, backstabbing former friend!
Keep your little Olive Branch.
I will take what I can get from Barr. It is possible that other Never Trumpers will smell the coffee
[Faint praise from a 2 faced, backstabbing former friend!
Keep your little Olive Branch.]
Oh pffft!
He’s looking for a raise. By 72 hrs on a Wednesday news cycle- not a Sunday night- he’ll claim Trump is worse than ever by some surprise
It would be smarter to take whatever votes you can get. Those on the edge can be easily pushed away, especially if presented with a purity test.
Re: 6 - I believe that is the way to look at Barr’s comments regarding the 2024 election. Barr is not going to give a full-on endorsement - it’s just the way it is.
Posters here may tell Barr to stuff it - we’ll see how President Trump responds.
Re: 8 - thankfully, foot-stomping purity testers aren’t running the campaign.
Demonization of Bill Barr, former hero of left, in 3...2...1...
Bill Barr is a surfer
That little Son of a Bitch.
Barr, could have been a HERO, if he had some semblance of integrity when it was NEEDED THE MOST.
Well, I guess he waited until he saw that President Trump could go to HARLEM AND HAVE CHILDREN YELLING “ WE LOVE YOU TRUMP” before he could raise his ugly head and...”support his former boss.”
WHAT A TOTAL CREEP!!!
D U H !
What a guy! /s
Not to late at all...It’s the right time. Give him credit for speaking up. Geeeeez...what’s wrong with you people.
Bagpipe Barr is not to be trusted.
He’d have to admit that he was very busy trying to tank Trump for years.
Until he fesses up he’s total PNG.
That’s nice. Bill Barr is mentally ill.
Simple stuff....Do unto others...
First, Bagpipe has to delineate just how he was working to undermine Trump for so long.
At that level, he has no shortage of ‘splainin’ to do.
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