Jamie Raskin

So, the good news is, I think there's very little chance he could ever be convicted, because it's so clearly a case of vindictive and selective prosecution.

where all of the norms of the rule of law have been suspended, and the president didn't care about the facts, and the president didn't care about the law.

He just cared about his emotions, and it was a vengeance campaign.

So I think either the judge will have to throw it out, or a jury, hearing it, will see it and simply cannot find that there is remotely enough evidence to convict.

The bad news for us is that this is now part of a pattern.

You know, they began by squashing an indictment against Mayor Adams in New York, a corruption indictment, simply because they had a political purpose for that.

Then they had to basically force out Danielle Sassoon, the U.S.

attorney for New York, and basically her entire innermost staff, four or five lawyers, followed her out the door before they found somebody who would actually follow that order.

And it's just case after case.

I mean, it's the same thing going on now with the Epstein file, which they had promised to release.

Then they deployed the hundreds and hundreds of FBI agents to pour over the entire trove of documents to look for Donald Trump's name, to redact his name, to find pictures or video, whatever.

And then they came back and basically said, there's nothing to see here.

We're going to drop

the whole matter, despite the fact that they had promised to release it and now are engaged in the most remarkable evasions in order to explain why they don't care anymore.

But all of this bespeaks an incredible politicization of the Department of Justice and its conversion into an instrument of the political will of the president.

Well, right, they're not looking for qualified Republican U.S.

attorneys.

They're looking for unqualified Republican U.S.

attorneys, that is, those people who demonstrate nothing other than personal fidelity to Donald Trump.

people who don't have any sense of what the law is or what prosecutors are supposed to do.