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Legal expert on conservative lies: 'If the person's last name was not Trump, he would be charged' [1]
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Date: 2023-03-22
CNN legal expert Laura Coates was also on the panel. She pointed out that not only is there a long-standing national history of charging people when you have compelling evidence again them, but there is also very recent history in this very case. “When you look at this, there has been somebody who has been charged under the common nucleus of the facts—Michael Cohen.”
In fact, Coates reminds viewers, it was Trump’s attorney general, Bill Barr, “who really frowned upon what he perceived as a political persecution in the courts when related to Michael Cohen, as opposed to the actual substance of the issue.” The second part of Coates’ point is that we forget that law enforcement at every level have to make decisions about what to enforce and when to enforce it:
“Look, think about it as if you're driving down the highway. Most people probably are speeding, and the cops are seeing you as well, they decide who to pull over and they decide that based on who might be the most egregious or beyond. Here, this might not fall in the egregious category compared to January 6th and beyond, but a prosecutor has the ability to bring a case if a crime has been committed without regard to the other things that may have happened around it.”
The bogus right-wing argument that the prosecutorial discretion being exercised here is egregiously political is so very rich coming from the political party that spent years and months and tons of money “investigating” Hillary Clinton when she wasn’t running for president. This is the same outfit that is now investigating Hunter Biden’s penis, and Joe Biden’s very difficult personal struggles supporting a son with a lot of issues, for as long as they feel is politically purposeful.
We will have to see if they take this same tack with the possible indictments coming out of Georgia’s prosecutors in the next few weeks.
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