Trump says corrupt prosecutors are criminalizing political opponents

 Washington Examiner:

Former President Donald Trump said the indictments handed down to the Trump Organization and the company's chief financial officer are "reminiscent of a communist dictatorship."

Accusing New York prosecutors of "prosecutorial misconduct," Trump told a crowd in Florida that the indictments against the Trump Organization and CFO Allen Weisselberg showed that the leadership in "Democrat-run cities" are "corrupting and weaponizing the law against their political opponents."

"Radical Left New York City and state prosecutors who have allowed crime to skyrocket ... are now outrageously and shamefully continuing the greatest witch hunt. That's what they do," he said Saturday night. "They go and target me."

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Trump called the indictments "the kind of persecution ... that you would see in a Third World nation."

"It's reminiscent of a communist dictatorship targeting your political opponents ... fabricating charges to try and silence them, abusing the justice system, and leaking out information on a daily basis in the press to engage in flagrant character assassination," he said.

Trump said it was "unprecedented, unheard of, and totally unacceptable in America for prosecutors to run for office on a promise to 'get' their political enemies," adding that an unnamed prosecutor in New York state who is running for office, likely Attorney General Letitia James, said, "We're going to get Trump."

"She knows nothing about me," Trump said. "All she knows is she's going to 'get' me, from the day she got in."

The former president said the prosecutors' efforts were "fascist and authoritarian."

"The people who talk about democracy are literally destroying it before our very eyes," he continued.

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"In the indictment, we allege, among other things, financial wrongdoing whereby the Trump Organization engaged in a scheme with Mr. Weisselberg to avoid paying taxes on certain compensation. This investigation will continue, and we will follow the facts and the law wherever they may lead," the state attorney general said.

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First, it is Weisselberg's responsibility to pay taxes on his income if he owes it, and not the organization he works for.  The company should get to deduct this compensation as an expense.  It is the kind of thing it is up to the accountants to sort out on behalf of the company.

But in the bigger picture, Trump is right.  These people were not investigating a crime.  They were searching for a reason to manufacture one because they hate Trump's political point of view.  Trump's political positions are not remotely illegal.  His enemies just disagree with them and want to find another route to dealing with them since the voters support those positions.

See, also:

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"You can't get a city district attorney indicting somebody for failing to pay federal income taxes when the IRS hasn't even gone after him," Dershowitz told "Saturday Report." "One of the charges, a major charge, is grand larceny against the United States government. That shows the extent to which they are prepared to stretch existing law and the Constitution to give them authority over federal taxes? It's absurd."
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