ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos ended an interview Sunday when his guest presented evidence that questioned the Biden administration’s influence in President Donald Trump’s hush money trial.
At the end of the controversial interview, Trump’s lawyer Will Schaerf argued that his client’s prosecution demonstrates the “weaponization of the justice system” and the “politicization of prosecution.”
“George, if you want to talk about political adjustments, it’s right in front of you.”
“If you think back to this case in New York, it was called a ‘zombie case.’ It was left lying around. It could have been filed any time after 2020. And then all of a sudden, when President Trump announced his candidacy for president, this case was taken back, rushed before a grand jury, and then rushed to court,” Schaaf argued. “If you want to talk about the politicization of the justice system, this is really Exhibit A.”
For some reason, the claim that the American legal system has been politicized has led Stephanopoulos to defend President Joe Biden’s Justice Department.
“Of course, the Manhattan attorney general has nothing to do with the Department of Justice,” Stephanopoulos countered.
But Scharf disagreed.
“I strongly disagree that the New York District Attorney was not politically motivated, and I strongly disagree that President Biden and his political allies had no role in this prosecution,” Schaaf responded.
“The Biden campaign …” he continued, as Stephanopoulos intervened to defend Biden.
“There is no evidence of that here, your Excellency, there is no evidence of that. I will not allow you to continue to tell me that any longer. There is absolutely no evidence of that,” Stephanopoulos argued.
On the contrary, Schaaf then presented evidence that cast doubt on the role that Democratic politics played in the Manhattan District Attorney’s decision to prosecute a “zombie case.”
“So what about the fact that Matthew Colangelo was standing over Alvin Bragg’s shoulder when he announced this decision? Colangelo was the number three official in the Biden Justice Department, but he suddenly disappeared and emerged as an assistant district attorney shortly after Trump’s case began to get underway in New York,” Schaaf explained.
“George, if you want to talk about political alignment, it’s right in front of you,” he added.
Stephanopoulos, a former Democrat who left the Clinton administration for ABC News, responded by insisting simply that “this has nothing to do with President Biden.”
But he didn’t respond to Schaaf’s point about Matthew Colangelo.
Colangelo
Biden Administration’s Department of Justice He was appointed Assistant Attorney General, the third highest position in the Department of Justice. He will retire in December 2022. The Manhattan district attorney’s office. Like Bragg, Mr. Colangelo previously worked in the New York attorney general’s office, where he helped repeatedly target Mr. Trump.
When he joined Bragg’s Manhattan office, The New York Times
report “He will likely be one of the leaders of the district attorney’s criminal investigation into the former president,” Colangelo said.
And that’s exactly what happened.
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