Trump lawyer: 'Biden could be prosecuted for trying to stop this man'
Donald Trump lawyer John Lauro echoed his client on Tuesday by warning that President Joe Biden could face prosecution simply because his administration's Department of Justice brought charges against the former president.
While talking with reporters after an appeals court hearing in which Trump's legal team argued their client had absolute immunity from criminal prosecutions, Lauro made the case that hitting Trump with criminal charges would spark a cycle of recriminations in American politics.
"We can't have a country where every four years there is a cycle of political recrimination where one administration attacks a prior administration, when in fact that candidate is leading in the polls and will be the next president of the United States," Lauro said, referring to Trump.
"As our legal team, and our appellant team, made clear, that would be a disaster for our country, and direct attack on democracy and that cannot happen."
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Lauro warned that opening the door to prosecutions of former presidents would backfire on Biden, despite the fact that there is no evidence that Biden personally demanded the prosecution of Trump and despite the fact that it was a bipartisan House Select Committee that investigated the January 6th Capitol attacks that made an actual criminal referral against the former president.
"In fact, Joe Biden could be prosecuted for trying to stop this man from becoming the next president of the United States," said Lauro. "We don't need political prosecutions."
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