Former President Donald Trump railed at the Manhattan judge overseeing his fraud case as well as Democratic Attorney General Letitia James for being focused on him while crime spirals out of control in parts of New York City.
Trump made his remarks after leaving the courtroom on Wednesday.
What they’ve done here, the Attorney General sitting inside spending her whole day here, day after day after day, when people are being murdered all over the streets, the sidewalks of New York. Violent crime,” he told reporters.
“And no business is going to move into New York… Any company coming into New York would be crazy because it’s a setup,” he added. “This is a rigged trial. We have a hostile group of people. We have a very hostile judge. I hate to say it. We have a very, very hostile judge, and I think that everybody knows that, and we see that. But the good thing is we have all the evidence on our side. They have nothing.”
Democrats are keen to point out that “no one is above the law” when they talk about prosecuting Trump. Still, one Democrat voter — a self-described liberal who said he voted against Trump twice — says James has put Trump “below the law.”
In an interview with Newsmax TV, famed Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz argued that James doesn’t really care if a likely Trump conviction gets overturned on appeal after the election; she just wants him to be branded a ‘criminal’ so as to diminish his brand potentially.
“The goal of the ‘get Trump posse’ is simply to get him guilty, found liable before the election,” Dershowitz said during an appearance on “Newsline.” “Then they’ll be reversed after the election. They don’t care. Their goal is to influence the election negatively toward Donald Trump.
“Look, I’m not a Trump supporter. I want to see Trump lose in a fair election where there is no thumb of Democratic-appointed politicians on the scale, and that’s not going to happen if these efforts succeed,” Dershowitz, who defended Trump during one of his impeachment cases, said.
The legal expert went on to tell host Bianca de la Garza that Democrats are attempting to force Trump to burn through his money and resources by charging him “for crimes that never ever have been prosecuted before, like the New York crime of not disclosing hush money on a corporate form.”
“My God, Alexander Hamilton would have been put in jail under that theory,” Dershowitz said, adding that other wealthy real estate developers likely have inflated the value of their properties, too, to get a loan.
“There must be a hundred real estate moguls in New York who have inflated the value of their properties for purposes of getting a loan or other purposes, but she’s targeted only Donald Trump,” Dershowitz said.
“If she went after every single real estate person, she might say, No one is above the law. But what she’s basically saying is Donald Trump is below the law. We’re going to apply a different standard to him, and we don’t want the public to see it,” he added.
