The Biden campaign is cheering the conviction of ex-President Donald Trump in his business records case, a verdict that has prompted skepticism among legal observers and experts.
The campaign criticized Trump with a statement saying, “Donald Trump has always wrongly assumed that he would escape impunity for leveraging the law for personal benefits.”
Biden-Harris Campaign Statement on Today’s Verdict pic.twitter.com/TEmdNsPmzP
— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) May 30, 2024
Per the Examiner’s Ashley Oliver:
Bragg did not hire Colangelo for his white-collar prosecutorial experience, which was lacking at the time he joined Bragg’s office. Rather, Bragg valued Colangelo’s “broad knowledge” of the Trump Organization, according to a New York Times report published at the end of 2022, during the same time frame that Bragg was seeking to ramp up his prosecution efforts against Trump.
Legal authority Jonathan Turley has criticized the prosecution as “ridiculous,” and Greg Jarrett, a Fox News commentator and former defense lawyer, has pointed out that the trial fundamentally failed to uphold the “valued constitutional guarantee” of a fair trial.
NEW: Donald Trump says his “revenge” will be success and goes on to suggest that he has multiple rallies planned in New York City after the $350M ruling against him.
Epic 🔥🔥
“My revenge will be success.”
“I’m gonna see about Madison Square Garden and we’re gonna go to the… pic.twitter.com/tOMEkd0dwU
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) February 21, 2024
Trump: “He says ‘you’re not going to be a dictator are you?’ I said no no no, other than Day 1. We’re closing the border, and we’re drilling drilling drilling. After that, I’m not a dictator.” pic.twitter.com/SZU6KiYd2l
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) December 6, 2023