Former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr, who served in the first administration of President Donald J. Trump, is calling on his successor Merrick Garland—as well as Democrat District Attorneys Alvin Bragg and Fani Willis—to dismiss all criminal charges against the Republican president-elect. Barr contends that the verdict issued by the American people, based on Trump’s landslide electoral victory, should supersede their lawfare prosecutions.
“The American people have rendered their verdict on President Trump and decisively chosen him to lead the country for the next four years. They chose him to lead us with full knowledge of the claims against him by prosecutors around the country,” Barr said Wednesday in a statement. He continued: “I think Attorney General Merrick Garland and the State prosecutors should respect the people’s decision and dismiss the cases against President Trump now.”
Trump’s former Attorney General argues that the indictments against the president-elect are largely based on “novel legal theories” that “have already been gravely weakened by a series of court decisions.” Barr states that both the federal and state prosecutions against Trump have been “aired and rejected in the court of public opinion.” He adds that once Trump takes the Oath of Office, the U.S. Consitution renders the cases moot.
While at least three of the cases against Trump could be dropped now that he has won the 2024 presidential election, the former and future Republican president was found guilty of 34 counts of business record fraud in New York City. Trump is set to be sentenced by Judge Juan Merchan on November 26, though the judge may rule that presidential immunity effectively ends the legal action against him.
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