U.S. Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) ripped into the cast of characters in the hush-money trial persecution of former President Donald Trump.
Kennedy spoke with Fox News host Steve Doocy about events in the Manhattan courtroom as Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen took the stand this week as the prosecution’s star witness. The Louisiana Republican minced no words weighing in on Cohen’s testimony and didn’t spare left-wing District Attorney Alvin Bragg from his scathing rebuke.
“I don’t know Mr. Cohen,” he began. “I suspect he doesn’t get invited to too many parties.”
Calling him “a sort of a grifter-type,” Kennedy added, “I’m not saying Mr. Cohen has never done the right thing. But if he did it was because he was probably constantly supervised and cornered like a rat.”
“This trial, I think, says more about our politics than it does about our alleged crime,” the Senate Judiciary Committee member continued.
“Mr. Bragg, I don’t know him either. My observation is that if you want to hide something from him, you put it in a law book,” he snarked.
“He’s bringing a felony criminal trial but he hasn’t proved a felony,” Kennedy said, adding later that Americans can see through the political motivations of President Joe Biden’s Justice Department and believe that “no other human being on the face of God’s green earth would be charged with this other than Donald Trump.”
“Most fair-minded Americans look at President Biden and they say, well, he’s old. His vice president is weak and his policies suck. His family has corruption problems and he’s losing the election,” the senator said, adding that everything Biden and Harris do is to “appeal to their base.”
Citing “political reasons” for the persecution of the presumptive GOP nominee, Kennedy asserted that this set a “horrible precedent.”
“This is the sort of thing, I’ve said this before, that happens in countries whose Powerball jackpot is 287 chickens and a goat,” the lawmaker continued. “We don’t do that in America…this may be the first purely political trial but it will not be the last, I regret to say.”
Kennedy also spoke about legislation he recently introduced called the Fairness in Fentanyl Sentencing Act.
“Woke cities and states throughout the country are now scrambling to reinstall policies to restore law and order by deterring drug use,” he wrote in the op-ed published Tuesday.
“Drug overdoses killed an estimated 112,000 Americans in 2023 – more than twice as many deaths as car crashes. Yet no sane lawmaker would legalize reckless driving. Heartbreaking stories in Oregon and San Francisco prove that deterrence must be part of the policymaking equation,” he added.
“As cities and states work to replace failed, dumb crime policies with laws that deter drug use and promote safe communities, Congress must step up, too,” Kennedy wrote.
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