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Former Attorney General Bill Barr on Sunday slammed Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s criminal case against ex-President Donald Trump as prosecutorial abuse and a partisan hit job that only strengthens the Democrats’ chances of keeping the White House in 2024.
“I don’t think it [the indictment] has any merit. I think it’s transparently an abuse of prosecutorial power to accomplish a political end,” Barr, who headed the Justice Department under Trump, said on ABC’s “This Week” program.
“They want him to be the nominee because he is the weakest of the Republican candidates.”
Trump, 76, the first US president ever to be indicted, pleaded not guilty in Manhattan Supreme Court last week to 34 felony counts of falsifying business documents in connection to alleged “hush money” payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election.
After reading the “opaque” indictment, Barr said he was baffled as to what crime was allegedly committed.
“I don’t see anywhere specified here what the fraud was. These were his own business records… He’s the owner of the company,” Barr said.
“I think if [Bragg] has a good case he would specify exactly what his case is. But he’s tried to hide the ball.
