Legal experts reacted Thursday to the news of former President Donald Trump’s indictment, calling it a “legal disaster” and “deeply flawed.”
A Manhattan grand jury voted to indict the former president on Thursday after Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s investigation into his alleged payment of hush money to former porn star Stormy Daniels. The indictment is “patently political prosecution,” according to Jonathan Turley, Shapiro Chair of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.
“[Bragg] has made history, but it is an inglorious moment where even some on the left have criticized the effort,” Turley wrote on Twitter. “This is a patently political prosecution. Bragg and NY AG James ran on bagging Trump. This has fulfilled that pledge but, if the indictment follows the course described in coverage, it is deeply flawed theory. We will have to wait to see the indictment.”
Legal scholar and Harvard Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz called the decision “foolish” on Newsmax.
“They’ve made a foolish, foolish decision which will cause the case to be thrown out, I think, on statute of limitations grounds,” he said. Dershowitz added that Trump’s lawyers should make a motion to dismiss on statute of limitations grounds and on the grounds that the “alleged crime doesn’t fit.”
Former Senior Legal Adviser to President Trump Jenna Ellis said that the prosecution is only “incentivizing donors and the MAGA base to rally support against Trump because no one deserves to be politically prosecuted.”
“The case against Donald Trump is a legal disaster and weaponizing the justice system against a political opponent,” Ellis wrote on Twitter. “The only reason DA Alvin Bragg is bringing charges is because Trump is running for the GOP 2024 presidential nomination.”
The case against Donald Trump is a legal disaster and weaponizing the justice system against a political opponent.
The only reason DA Alvin Bragg is bringing charges is because Trump is running for the GOP 2024 presidential nomination.
The DNC and RNC want a post-Trump…
— Jenna Ellis
(@JennaEllisEsq) March 30, 2023
A handful of state attorneys general have also reacted to the indictment.
“The radical left has consistently weaponized our courts to silence conservative voices,” tweeted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. “The actions by the Soros-backed Democrat DA in NYC is the latest example of this abuse of power. I stand with President Trump!”
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey also noted that the Manhattan DA is “Soros-funded” and said he should be “protecting the people of NYC from violent crime” instead of bringing “specious charges against our former President.”
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody said she is “heartbroken by the damage this targeted prosecution will do to the integrity of our justice system.”
“It is a sad day in the story of the United States,” Moody said.
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