Posted on 08/18/21
| News Source: Newsmax
CNN’s Chief Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin says, in a column posted on the news network’s website, there is no legal “basis to prosecute” former President Donald Trump.
“It’s one thing to describe the former president’s behavior as disgraceful and wrong — and I’d share that view — but quite another to argue that Trump should be criminally prosecuted,” Toobin said in the column posted Monday.
“Based on the available evidence, there is no basis to prosecute Trump and little reason even to open a criminal investigation.”
Toobin claimed that “Trump’s final days in office demonstrate that his behavior was, at a minimum outrageous.
“He pressured his acting attorney general, Jeffrey Rosen, to open an investigation of purported fraud in the vote count in Georgia, even though there was no evidence of such wrongdoing,” he said. “In one call, Trump apparently directed Rosen to “just say the election was corrupt, [and] leave the rest to me.”