Donald Trump’s attorney general said he wouldn’t put the former president on the stand “because he lacks all self-control” as a newly minted Republican presidential candidat…
“The real danger of this thing over the long term isn’t so much narrowed to Trump,” he said. “It’s now we have thousands of DAs around the country, now that the Rubicon has been crossed, any one of them can find federal candidates or federal office holders and so forth, can find some state law they want to pursue the person on and get themselves into the national political arena.”
Former Attorney General Bill Barr has some advice for Donald Trump’s legal team: ”I think it’s a bad idea to go on the stand and I think it’s a particularly bad idea for Trump because he lacks all self-control. “Hutchinson, the former Arkansas governor, called on Trump to withdraw from the 2024 race over the indictment, as he announced on ABC News that he will seek the Republican nomination.
Former President Donald Trump has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury in connection to a hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels.A Manhattan grand jury indicted Trump Thursday in connection to a $130,000 “hush money” payment made to porn star Stormy Daniels in the lead up to the 2016 presidential election. Trump is scheduled to be arraigned in Manhattan Supreme Court on Tuesday afternoon.
Hutchinson acknowledged that Trump will not withdraw from the race, leaving it up to voters whether Trump is elected in 2024.
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