Rep Mike Lawler Says the ‘Great Irony’ of Trump Sentencing Is ‘No One Did More To Elect’ Trump ‘Than Alvin Bragg and Tish James’

Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) responded to President-elect Donald Trump being ordered to a sentencing hearing in his hush money case a “great irony” since Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg helped elect Trump.

Lawler joined Fox News on Saturday following a sentencing hearing for Trump being set for Jan. 10, just 10 days before his inauguration. Trump was found guilty on multiple felony counts in the hush money case where he was accused of falsifying business records to cover up an affair with film actress Stormy Daniels. Trump continues to deny knowledge of the payments and he’s denied ever engaging in the affair.

Lawler partially credited Trump’s victory back into the White House to Bragg and New York Attorney General Letitia James, calling the pair “rogue prosecutors” who targeted Trump to build their own political profiles.

Lawler argued:

In both cases you had two rogue prosecutors who decided that when they were running for office that they were going to go after Donald Trump. They said it. They ran on it. And then, in fact, did it. And in both cases, the charges make no sense. In the case of Alvin Bragg, he took what would have amounted to at worst a violation of the FEC and turned it from a federal case into a state case, and from a misdemeanor to a felony. That alone, it should have been thrown out, just on the merits itself.

The lawmaker added he believes Trump has a good chance of getting the charges thrown out on appeal.

In Truth Social posts on Saturday, Trump raged against the New York case and the hearing, claiming President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were “directly or indirectly” involved. Trump declared that no president has been as “evilly and illegally treated” as he has.

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