'The Trumps can’t even condemn that': Expert slams Don Jr. over comparing Russia to dad's order
During Sunday's episode of MSNBC's Inside with Jen Psaki, legal analyst and expert Neal Katyal praised Judge Arthur Engoron's Saturday, February 17 order for Donald Trump to pay over $400 million in his New York civil fraud trial.
"What struck me is that if you look at these cases — from the New York criminal case to Georgia, to special counsel Jack Smith's case, they all have this one thing in common: fraud," Psaki said, asking Katyal,"If you're a prosecutor, how do you look at this theme of grifting and fraud over the course of decades, and in multiple cases?"
The prosecutor replied, "Yeah, so first, I just want to make a comment about what Don Jr. said, equivocating these judgments to what happens in Russia. No. In Russia, they literally execute political opponents. The Trumps can't even condemn that. Indeed, Trump is coming in the court, trying to seek absolute immunity so that he as president could, as he said, allow the execution of his political opponents. And so, to me, the theme, Jen, is not just fraud, which is a common theme throughout all of these cases. But also this idea of impunity, that he is above the law."
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Katyal continued, "Even before he became president in 2016, he committed various crimes, he said 'well you couldn't prosecute me because I'm now sitting president of the office,' and then when he's impeached, says, 'you have to prosecute me, you can't just impeach me.' And then when he leaves his office as president, he says, 'you can't prosecute me, because you didn't fully impeach me.' The whole thing is just a house of cards. At every turn, it's about saying, 'I, Donald Trump am above the law.' and that's why this decision, I think, was so important this week, by Judge Engoron. Because it attacks one of the things Trump is most proud of. His supposed business acumen. And so the judgment's not just a blow to his business into his wallet, it's a blow to his ego and it's a blow to his claim that he's above the law."
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