Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is back in the news. But not for good reasons.
And now Hillary Clinton is worried about going to prison after what a U.S. attorney just said on Fox News.
Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University, ridiculed former First Lady Hillary Clinton on Thursday for criticizing the former president Donald Trump on the purported payment made to adult film star Stormy Daniels.
During her appearance on Morning Joe, Clinton discussed Trump’s trial on a 34-count prosecution secured by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. She also claimed that the $130,000 payment made to Daniels in 2016 was a kind of “election interference” by the Trump campaign.
What’s noteworthy is that the 2016 Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee had agreed to pay a fine of $113,000 for neglecting to disclose their funding of the now-disproved Steele dossier via the Perkins Coie legal firm.
Turley ridiculed Clinton’s assertions, pointing to the actions of her 2016 campaign.
“They are saying you rigged an election or a race that was already run, that’s what doesn’t make sense to us,” Turley began to note on Fox News.
“The hilarious aspect of that earlier clip with Hillary Clinton is that she actually makes the case for Trump, because when she ‘says how dare you keep information from the public,’ The Clinton campaign lied to the media about funding the Steele dossier.”
“How did they hide it? They said it was legal expenses with Marc Elias. And when they were facing a fine, they litigated that and said no, it really is a legal expense. So her campaign did exactly what she is suggesting here, but they did it before the election.”
The FBI’s investigation into claims that the Trump campaign interfered in the 2016 election with Russia was mainly backed by the Steele dossier. According to FBI supervisory analyst Brian Auten’s testimony, the FBI offered Christopher Steele, the author of the dossier, $1 million in October 2016 in exchange for Steele confirming the accusations outlined in the document.
In the end, Auten stated that Steele was unable to “prove the allegations.”
“What Trump is being accused of is giving the wrong notation, which he may not have had anything to do with, after the election was over that somehow affected the election,” Turley said.
“The fact that judge Juan Merchan has allowed this case to go forward on these conflicted elements of the theory is one of the biggest complaints I have against him, that most judges, I think, would have approached this case very differently and many would not have had this case go to trial,” Turley concluded.
Turley’s comments are spot on and highlight the pure hypocrisy of the political establishment going after Donald Trump for so-called “crimes” that a million other politicians already committed.
Turley isn’t just some no-name attorney either. He’s one of the most respected law professionals in the entire nation and is a top law professor at George Washington University.
There’s simply no argument to be made that Hillary Clinton is completely innocent and should be free to walk and that Donald Trump needs to be thrown in prison for unsubstantiated claims of payments to an adult film star.
On top of this all of this, Stormy Daniels herself just testified in court that it was her signature on the letter from years ago that alleged she had no affiliation with Donald Trump whatsoever and that he never paid her hush money.
This case is total BS in the eyes of most Americans. Surveys of American voters about the case suggest most agree that this case is just politically charged, even those who don’t plan on voting for Trump in November.
Stay tuned to the DC Daily Journal.
