Representative Dan Bishop (R) of North Carolina compared former President Trump’s current legal situation to that of a black person in the segregated South.
“It’s as bad as it was in Alabama in 1950…if a person is black, to get justice,” Bishop said. said Monday in “The Pete Kaliner Show” on Charlotte radio station WBT. “And that’s what they did in New York. So it was fundamentally rigged, and the people who attacked me for saying that can attack all they want.”
The former president became the first former US president to be convicted in criminal court on Thursday when a jury found him guilty of all 34 counts of falsifying business records during his 2016 campaign in order to of hiding alleged love affairs.
Referring to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and Special Counsel Jack Smith, Bishop said: “Ultimately, these people are doing things – they are using power in a way that they know is wrong, or they have no excuse. to not know this, and they should be prosecuted for their election interference.”
Bishop, a candidate for North Carolina attorney general, also commented Friday on Trump’s verdict in posts at the social platform.
“Election interference to ‘get Trump,’” Bishop said in one of the posts. “It was never about justice – it was about manipulating and weaponizing our justice system against anyone who threatens its grip on power. We must end the leftist legal war in November.”
Rep. Jeff Jackson (D-N.C.), who is running against Bishop to become attorney general of the Tar Heel State, fired back at Bishop in his own X post.
“This is my opponent for attorney general. He immediately rejects 34 unanimous jury verdicts as ‘rigged,’” Jackson said. said in his reply. “He was never a prosecutor – and it shows. Disagreeing with a jury is one thing, but saying everything is rigged is dishonest and destructive.”
The Hill has reached out to Bishop’s office and campaign for comment.
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