Tristan Snell, the former assistant attorney general for the state of New York who prosecuted the Trump University fraud case, told CNN on Monday that former President Donald Trump has been getting "special treatment" that is given to no other criminal defendants.
During an interview with John Berman, Snell made the case that the courts have gone far easier on Trump than they have on defendants who have also been found liable for decades' worth of business fraud.
"He is getting special treatment and that is the thing that really needs to stop here," Snell argued. "If he were not who he is, if he were not claiming to be this special person who is somehow above the law, then this process would have actually played out years ago and it would have resulted in his assets and property being seized."
"He is getting special treatment?" asked Berman, who seemed somewhat taken aback by Snell's claims.
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"Yes, he has absolutely been getting special treatment," Snell emphasized. "He's been getting special treatment this entire way. He was able to evade accountability in this matter all these years. We're talking about events that happened in the 2010s in terms of the fraud. In terms of the falsification of business records case involving Michael Cohen, those were events that occurred back in 2016. All of this is stuff that would have come home to roost for any other defendant not named Donald Trump long before now."
Snell then went on to document how Trump has been flouting the law even while facing criminal charges.
"He already violated a court order that said that he couldn't move assets around," he said. "He took $40 million cash out of the Trump Organization, his main holding company, and used it to pay other expenses of his, including a very large tax bill that he owed the federal government for $29 million, and including money that he needed to pay to E. Jean Carroll for assaulting and defaming her."
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