Fox News’ Jonathan Turley Goes Off on ‘Absurd’ NY-Trump Case: ‘The More Cases Against Trump, the Less Justice We Receive as a People’

Fox News legal analyst Jonathan Turley argued that the more cases are brought against Donald Trump by prosecutors, “the less justice we receive as a people” while inveighing against the “absurd” trial that began in New York on Monday.

“Jonathan, you wrote about Cicero saying ‘the more laws, the less justice,’ and that you see the same here. How so?” inquired America’s Newsroom host Dana Perino to kick off the conversation.

“Well, the more cases against Trump, the less justice we receive as a people. You know, the opponents of Trump would have been far better off with just one case, the Mar-a-Lago case. That’s based on real law, real precedent, and one can disagree with the interpretations. But it’s not a reach in the sense of this case,” began Turley. “This case is, creating something, it’s creating a criminal code just for Trump. You know, you have a misdemeanor whose time has expired, the statute limitations ran out, and it was revived in this rather curious way. He’s effectively arguing that Trump was filing false business records through his counsel to hide a federal crime. But it isn’t a federal crime, this wasn’t a campaign contribution.”

Nevertheless, he observed, “None of that appears to matter, and that’s why a lot of us are looking at this and recoiling. This is not how the law is supposed to be.”

“New Yorkers appear to like it this way. They elected [New York Attorney General Letitia] James, who ran on bagging Trump for anything, didn’t even mention what. And they now are lionizing this district attorney who’s putting together what many of us consider to be an absurd indictment,” concluded Turley.

Trump’s trial began in New York on Monday morning. He is also staring down the barrel of two federal criminal trials, as well as another one in Georgia.

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