‘Political prosecution’: Republican AGs want to end ‘legal prosecution’ of President-elect Trump

Republican attorneys general put President-elect Donald Trump’s prosecutors on notice, urging them to stop the “political prosecution of the incoming president.”

“The charges against President Trump, particularly the criminal prosecution, are not criminal,” Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird told Fox News Digital in an interview this week.

“It was all about the fact that he has run again for the presidential election, he is innocent, he has not done anything wrong, and those cases should not have been brought first. That was another way they were trying. wage campaign law.”

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Bird, along with more than 20 other attorneys general, sent a letter to Special Counsel Jack Smith, New York Attorney General Letitia James, and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, urging them to drop their charges to avoid the risk of a “constitutional crisis.” .”

Attorneys general from Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia. signed in the book.

“Mr. Smith, a federal court has already dismissed your claims in one case because of your improper appointment,” the AGs wrote in the letter. “That appointment violates the Nominations Clause and Article II of the US Constitution. Not only that, your prosecution of President Trump—President Biden and the Vice President’s political rival Harris—violated many Department of Justice policies.”

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Republican presidential nominee then-President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign event, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024, in Mint Hill, NC. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

“The president of the United States is the most important job in the world,” they wrote. “The President leads the free world. And America just gave President Trump the authority to lead the United States into a brighter future. Persecution aimed at “self-improvement” is not always justified.”

Department of Justice announced Wednesday that it wants to drop two criminal charges against President-elect Donald Trump before his second term.

Trump was indicted on 37 counts in June 2023 on charges stemming from Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021. He pleaded not guilty to all charges.

Trump was impeached in Georgia in August 2023 after a multi-year criminal investigation led by federal prosecutors into his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in the state.

Trump has denied all charges.

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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis holds a press conference at the Fulton County Government Center after a grand jury voted to indict former President Donald Trump and 18 others in Atlanta, Georgia on August 14, 2023. (Christian Monterosa/AFP via Getty Images)

In early 2023, Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee dismissed six of the charges against Trump, saying that District Attorney Fani Willis had failed to provide enough information. The situation escalated when it emerged that Willis reportedly had an “inappropriate relationship” with Nathan Wade, the prosecutor he hired to help prosecute Trump. He was later removed.

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About three months after taking office, James announced an investigation into the Trump Organization, saying there was evidence that the president and his company falsified assets to obtain loans, insurance and tax deductions. The investigation was launched after Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, who served time in federal prison for violating campaign finance laws, testified before Congress that the Trump Organization exaggerated its assets.

Fox News Digital’s Haley Chi-Sing and Emma Colton contributed to this report.