Conservative attorney George Conway slammed Donald Trump on Tuesday for claiming that he has “every right” to interfere in the 2020 presidential election.
In a Fox News interview that aired Sunday, Trump claimed Democrats weaponized the Justice Department against him and that the criminal charges did nothing but boost his poll numbers.
“Whoever heard you get indicted for interfering with a presidential election where you have every right to do it, you get indicted, and your poll numbers go up?” Trump said. “When people get indicted, your poll numbers go down. But it was such, such nonsense.”
Conway told CNN Tuesday that Trump was essentially confessing to the charges in the federal election subversion case against him brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith.
“If I were a lawyer, I tell him he has the Fifth Amendment right to stuff a sock in his mouth but he’s not capable of doing that, and he continually makes remarks that are frankly incriminating,” Conway said.
“His statement there in that interview with Mark Levin that to the effect that he had the perfect right to interfere with the election, is an admission that he tried to interfere with the election and that he wasn’t trying to enforce federal law and act in his capacity as president of the United States,” he continued. “He was trying to win an election that he clearly lost.”
Trump was reindicted last week on four felony charges related to his effort to subvert the 2020 presidential election.
The indictment by Smith, is an attempt by prosecutors to streamline the case against Trump to address the Supreme Court’s ruling that concluded presidents have immunity from prosecution for their official conduct.
