On Tuesday, two Republicans who have been very loud about how much they don’t like Donald Trump said bad things about the case that New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg brought against him. They said that the claims were too general and didn’t have enough details.
John Bolton, who used to be Trump’s national security advisor, said on CNN that he was upset that the accusation had been dropped. “I don’t want Donald Trump to win the Republican nomination for president, and I’m very upset that he might,” he said to show his anger.
He said, “I think this is even weaker than I thought it would be, and I think it could be thrown out quickly, or Trump could be cleared quickly.”
The 76-year-old former president was charged with making up 34 business papers on Tuesday and pleaded not guilty to all of them.
People close to Trump are said to have paid Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, two women who say they had affairs with Trump before the 2016 election, to keep quiet. Daniels is a porn star, and McDougal used to be a Playboy model.
Bragg says that Cohen’s guilty plea in August 2018 is proof that Trump lied on the record to get around federal campaign finance rules.
Bolton, who has said he might run for president in 2024, used specific legal language to back up his claim that Trump’s acts do not count as donations or spending.
Also, the last US representative to the UN said that the law was being read to allow this kind of behavior, which would be against the First Amendment.
Mitt Romney, who ran for president as a Republican and is running against Trump for a Senate seat, said in a statement, “I think President Trump’s character and behavior make him unfit for office.”
But, Romney said, “I think the New York prosecutor has stretched to reach felony criminal charges to fit a political agenda.”
Even past heads of state should have the same rights as everyone else. The public’s trust in the justice system has been hurt, and by going to jail for political opponents, the judge has set a dangerous example.
Congress will look into the “politicized charges” against Trump, said House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) in a tweet on Tuesday. He said again that Bragg would have to pay for “his unheard-of abuse of power.”
McCarthy wrote on Twitter that Alvin Bragg is “trying to interfere with our democratic process” by making “politically motivated charges” against President Trump with public money, and that Congress “has no power to investigate this farce.”
“Not so. Lawmakers will look into how and why Bragg used guns in federal court.
On Tuesday, the Democrats in New York told the court that Trump would get a fair trial and asked his supporters to stop trying to scare them.
Chuck Schumer, the leader of the Democrats in the Senate from New York, said in a statement that he was sure President Trump would get a “fair trial that follows the facts and the law.”
No amount of power or meddling from outside can change the way our justice system works. The Constitution lets people protest the case, but he stressed that they must do so calmly.
Jerry Nadler, a Democrat from New York and the head of the House Judiciary Committee, has spoken out in favor of the charges made against Trump in the first impeachment meeting. “Like every other defendant in the New York court system, Trump will have every chance to defend himself in court,” he said.
“In our justice system, defendants are assumed to be innocent until they are proven guilty,” Nadler said.
Many people on the right in the House have already started a campaign to scare Trump’s police force. I don’t know how this case will turn out, but I can tell you that Jim Jordan and Kevin McCarthy’s political moves won’t bother or stop DA Bragg.