Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) urged the New York hush cash case performed an element in serving to President-elect Trump win the 2024 presidential election towards Vice President Harris.
“Well, the great irony in all of this is that I don’t think anyone did more to help elect Donald Trump president of the United States than Alvin Bragg and Tish James,” Lawler mentioned throughout his Saturday look on Fox Information, referencing Bragg (D), the Manhattan district lawyer, whose workplace prosecuted the case the place a 12-person jury discovered Trump responsible of 34 counts. The president-elect has denied any wrongdoing.
“In both cases, you had two rogue prosecutors who decided that when they were running for office that they were going to go after Donald Trump. They said it. They ran on it. And then, in fact, did it. And in both cases, the charges make no sense,” the New York Republican mentioned.
Lawler’s remarks got here as New York Decide Juan Merchan on Friday ordered that the hush cash prison sentencing happen on Jan. 10 — 10 days earlier than Trump’s inauguration.
In his choice, Merchan hinted that he wouldn’t impose punishment for the Could conviction over considerations about Trump’s immunity from prison prosecution when taking the oath of workplace later this month.
In response, Trump mentioned that Merchan must be disbarred and added that he “never falsified business records. It is a fake, made up charge by a corrupt judge who is just doing the work of the Biden/Harris Injustice Department, an attack on their political opponent, ME!.”
Lawler asserted that Bragg’s case ought to have been thrown out.
“In the case of Alvin Bragg, he took what would have amounted to at worst a violation of the FEC and turned it from a federal case into a state case, and from a misdemeanor to a felony,” he mentioned. “That alone, it should have been thrown out, just on the merits itself.”
