John Lauro, an attorney representing Trump, told “CBS Mornings” that “the current president is using the criminal process to attack a former president on policy issues.”
Former President Donald Trump’s attorney John Lauro characterized the second federal indictment of his client as an unprecedented criminalization of political speech and argued that Trump noticed irregularities and saw “the rules being changed” in the middle of the 2020 presidential election.
“This is the first time that political speech has been criminalized in the history of the United States,” Lauro told “CBS Mornings” a day after a federal grand jury indicted Trump on felony counts related to his efforts to remain in power after losing the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
“It’s the first time where a current president is using the criminal process to attack a former president on policy issues,” Lauro said. “We are in a constitutional abyss right now. We’ve never seen this … the president wants his day in court. Most importantly, he wants to get to the truth, which we will do in this case.”
A on related to his efforts to remain in power after the 2020 election.
