When former President Donald Trump’s attorney Will Scharf reiterated claims of President Joe Biden having a part in Trump’s hush money trial, ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos didn’t want to hear it.
Scharf was a guest on “This Week” Sunday when continued the narrative that the trial, which ended in a guilty verdict on all 34 charges, was “exhibit A” in terms of the “politicization of the legal system,” per The Hill.
“It’s absolutely unprecedented in American history. It’s not the way that our campaigns are supposed to be run. We contest elections at the ballot box, not in the courts in this country,” Scharf continued.
Stephanopoulos agreed about winning elections at the ballot box. However, he said there was no evidence regarding any involvement of the federal Department of Justice with the New York state criminal trial.
“That is true. But, of course, we’ve never had a former president or presidential candidate facing the kind of charges that the president faced because of his own activities. And, of course, the attorney general in Manhattan has nothing to do with the Department of Justice,” Stephanopoulos said.
Although Stephanopoulos attempted to continue with his question about sentencing process, Scharf deflected that question to continue his narrative of the trial being politically motivated.
“I vehemently disagree that the district attorney in New York was not politically motivated here,” Scharf said, “and I vehemently disagree that President Biden and his political allies aren’t up to their necks in this prosecution.”
That’s when Stephanopoulos stopped Scharf.
“There’s no evidence here of that. Sir … I’m not going to let you continue to say that. There’s just zero evidence of that,” he said.
“Do you want to answer the question about the sentencing process or not?” Stephanopoulos said.
The interview ended after Scharf alleged that prosecutor Matthew Colangelo “standing over [District Attorney] Alvin Bragg’s shoulder when he announced this verdict” was evidence of political interference because he used to work at the Department of Justice.
