Mournful Jonathan Turley Says Democrats Are ‘Dehumanizing’ Trump: They ‘No Longer View This as a Human Being’ 

Fox News contributor and George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley struck a somber note on Friday as he discussed Donald Trump’s guilty verdict and the reaction to it.

The former president was found guilty on Thursday of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. It was the first time in U.S. history that an ex-president was criminally convicted.

“You got the feeling in there that history was being made, but we don’t know what history,” said Turley, who was sitting outside Trump Tower and described seeing people celebrate the guilty verdict on the streets of New York. “Obviously, we have the conviction of a president. And that is history that we should all feel saddened by, regardless of how you feel about Trump. There is a dehumanizing aspect – that people on the other side no longer view this as a human being. And you saw that when I walked out of that courthouse and saw the celebration in the street.”

Turley has accused Democrats of weaponizing the justice system against Trump and claimed the legal system hasn’t been this politicized since John Adams signed the Alien and Sedition Acts into law.

“But there’s another history here,” Turley continued. “Not since John Adams have we seen the legal system used so politically as in this case. It’s in our DNA as citizens that the legal system has to stand apart. And so, you may see an interesting response from the American people that, they may not like Donald Trump – many of them don’t – but they’re sure not gonna like what they saw in Manhattan. And Manhattan is not the entirety of our legal system and it’s not the entire nation. I think that we’re not gonna see that reaction.”

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