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When asked if he had any evidence at all, the great Lionel Hutz once said, “we’ve got plenty of hearsay and conjecture, those are kinds of evidence.” Trump attorney Will Scharf doesn’t even have hearsay on his side, but he’s fine running on pure conjecture, baby!
Scharf, also a candidate for Missouri Attorney General, appeared on This Week with George Stephanopoulos to bemoan his boss’s criminal convictions and engage in some entirely political posturing about the upcoming appeal. While Todd Blanche approached this same task by acting like the legal process is an entirely foreign concept to him, Scharf took a completely different tack and just made up a bunch of unfounded nonsense about Joe Biden being behind the New York case.
Normal legal teams are all alike, each crazy legal team is crazy in its own way.
Per Politico:
Speaking on “This Week,” Scharf responded to Stephanopoulos saying, “Of course, the attorney general of Manhattan has nothing to do with the Department of Justice,” by arguing in response: “I vehemently disagree that the district attorney in New York was not politically motivated here, and I vehemently disagree that President Biden and his political allies aren’t up to their necks in this prosecution.”
Stephanopoulos answered: “There’s no evidence here of that sir. … I’m not going to let you continue to say that — there’s zero evidence of that.”
Of course. Biden is such a driving force behind this prosecution that he’s going out of his way to avoid campaigning on it and he exerts such control over the criminal justice system that he’s… prosecuting his own son?
Maybe conjecture isn’t enough, buddy.
As the interview continued, Scharf indicated that the appeals would rest primarily on arguments that Judge Juan Merchan should’ve recused and disagreements over the jury instructions. Stephanopoulos then pointed out that Scharf had praised the jury instructions.
This would be the gang that couldn’t shoot straight but I’m not sure they could even load a gun in the first place.
Maybe they should ask Hunter Biden how it works?
Trump attorney spars with ABC host over bias [Politico]
Earlier: Todd Blanche Doesn’t Seem To Understand How ‘Being A Lawyer’ Works
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