I was roaming the halls of the Republican convention this week when I came across Bob Bever, an affable attorney and delegate from Indiana who had no interest in locking up President Joe Biden — and thinks former President Donald Trump doesn’t really either.
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Trump’s allies in the media have been even more aggressive.
“Of course [Bragg] should be — and will be — jailed,” former Trump adviser Steve Bannon has said. “We’re coming after [Deputy Attorney General] Lisa Monaco, [Attorney General] Merrick Garland, the senior members of DOJ that have prosecuted President Trump. Jack Smith,” he has promised. (Bannon, of course, has a personal stake in the matter, given that he is currently serving a prison sentence after being convicted of contempt of Congress by the Justice Department.)
Mike Davis, the founder and president of the pro-Trump Article III Project and a self-proclaimed potential acting attorney general in a second Trump administration, has likewise been a vocal advocate for a raft of retaliatory political prosecutions.
Davis has said that Biden should be prosecuted based on his “illegal foreign corruption.” He has claimed that there “is a criminal conspiracy by these Democrat prosecutors, these Democrats judges, these Democrat witnesses, these Democrat operatives” to “violate President Trump’s civil rights” and those of his co-defendants. After I wrote a story about a series of off-the-record calls among some well known legal and political commentators, Davis described the participants as “Potential targets of the Trump 47 Justice Department’s criminal probe of Biden Democrats’ criminal conspiracy against Trump.”
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