The prosecutor for the Florida county where Donald Trump lives shot down the former president's claims that President Joe Biden was directing the prosecutions against him.
Trump and his allies have been using those claims to justify using the criminal justice system to target Biden and other political enemies should the presumptive Republican nominee return for another term in the White House. But Palm Beach County Attorney Dave Aronberg told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" the allegations were absurd and treacherous.
"It's really dangerous if Donald Trump gets a lackey as attorney general, they have immense power as a federal prosecutor," Aronberg said. "They'll have less ability to influence local prosecutors. I think one of the best things about being a local district attorney is that the governor, the attorney general are not your bosses.
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"The people of our communities are our bosses. That's why when MAGA accuses Joe Biden of pulling the springs, they're lying or they have a fundamental misunderstanding of the criminal justice system. If the White House was involved with putting their thumb on the scale at the local level, they would be calling me because I'm the state attorney with Mar-a-Lago in my jurisdiction."
The former president was convicted by a jury on all 34 felony counts last week in his hush money trial in New York, and he's been indicted twice in two federal courts, and also in Georgia.
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Aronberg warned that Trump's false claims about Biden were a pretext for targeting him and other Democrats with politicized prosecutions.
"What this shows is that Team Trump is projecting yet again when they claim that the prosecutions are weaponized against the former president," Aronberg said. "It's cynical, it's dangerous, and it shows how the rule of law means nothing to these people."
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