Fmr. Trump Attorney: The Hush Money Case ‘Absolutely Has To Be Dismissed’

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SCHOEN: "Well, first of all, I don't trust Judge Merchan to do the right thing at all. He should have recused himself from day one, had no business sitting on this case given his daughter's clear conflict of interest. He decided to keep it, I think for publicity purposes. I have appeared before him, I find him to be incompetent and insecure, but with an ego, so those are a bad combination of factors. This case absolutely has to be dismissed, there’s no question about it. As you know, the October 16, 2000 memo from the office of legal counsel says clearly that there cannot be any indictment or criminal process for a sitting president, and the same principles ought to apply to a president-elect under the Presidential Transition Act, he has the same priority of a policy and attention that’s required when he’s a sitting president. So you say, well, that’s only binding on the federal Justice Department, this is a state prosecution. The same principles underlying that memo written, by the way, by Judge Randolph Moss, who sits with Judge Chutkan on the D.C. District Court now, those same principles apply to the state prosecution.”