Christian Smith
(NewsNation) – The fallout from former President Donald Trump’s guilty verdict in the New York financial hush case has taken a darker turn, with demands for retribution coming from the right.
“What’s wrong with making Democrats live by the same standards they made Donald Trump live by,” asked former acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney. “What’s wrong with making this real?”
Several Republican lawmakers have made several proposals to attack the FBI and local prosecutors who are pursuing cases against former President Donald Trump, most notably Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis .
While the FBI receives significant federal funding, prosecutors like Bragg and Willis, whose offices are run primarily through state and local funds, do not.
On NewsNation’s “Dan Abrams Live,” Mulvaney suggested that a Trump-led Justice Department could look at President Joe Biden’s tax returns, or those of other prominent Democrats “to see if there’s anything marginally close to being illegal, and then initiate criminal action. What’s wrong with making Democrats live by the same standards?”
Several notable Democrats face significant legal problems. New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez is on trial for allegedly accepting bribes. Texas Rep. Henry Cueller was indicted last month on charges of accepting money from Azerbaijan and a Mexican commercial bank. Representative Cori Bush is under federal investigation over her campaign spending. Former deputy TJ Cox of California is still awaiting trial on charges of fraudulent campaign contributions.
“It’s all about ending the legal war,” House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, told reporters on Monday. He wants to withhold funding for a new FBI headquarters and defund what he calls politicized prosecutions.
During Attorney General Merrick Garland’s Tuesday testimony before the Judiciary Committee, New York Democrat Jerrold Nadler pushed back against the concept of “lawfare.”
The idea that the department is somehow orchestrating state prosecutions against the former president “for criminal activities that have been well documented” is a “ridiculous claim,” Nadler said.
Could such legal retribution come with a new Trump administration?
“It’s hard to say,” said Mulvaney, who recalled that Trump ran against Hillary Clinton with a promise to “lock her up.”
“When he had the opportunity to do that, he didn’t, so there’s a question of whether this is all hyperbole and campaign rhetoric or whether it’s real or not,” he said. “I’m not happy that the standard has been lowered to where it is, (but) this is now the world we live in.”
The hill contributed to this report
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