Stephanopoulos Claims Trump's 2016 'Lock Her Up' Chants Was "The Weaponization Of The Legal System"

ABC This Week host George Stephanopoulos, ever the Clinton operative, attempted to engage Trump defense attorney Will Scharf with an array of Democrat talking points. At no point during this interview did it go well for him. Watch Scharf shoot Stephanopoulos down on the issue of judicial recusal, as he goes for cheap Thomas/Alito whataboutism on judicial recusal. Stephanopoulos’ attempt at a cheap tu quoque on the recusal point proves that the trial has always been about politics rather than about the law. The same can be said for media coverage, especially on the most aggressively pro-Biden broadcast network news division, and especially on the Sunday show hosted by the Clinton White House’s most notorious attack dog. “Hurr Durr What About Thomas and Alito” is nonresponsive and even dismissive to the merits of Scharf’s arguments on Merchán’s non-recusal as one of several factual bases for an appeal of the guilty verdict against former President Donald Trump.

The entire interview transpired in this manner. On the issue of the weaponization of the justice system against opponents of the party in power, Stephanopoulos tried to whatabout Scharf with the old 2016 “lock her up” chants against Hillary Clinton, and got promptly schooled: ABC’s George Stephanopoulos: “You talked abt the weaponization of the legal system. Of course, it was former President Trump, who throughout the 2016 campaign led chants of ‘Lock her up’ about Hillary Clinton.” Schooled by Trump lawyer Will Scharf: He “didn’t weaponize DOJ.” -- Rude and condescending. George Stephanopoulos to Trump lawyer Will Scharf: “Sir, I’m not going to let you continue to say that, there’s just zero evidence of that…This has nothing to do with Biden. Do you want to answer the question about the sentencing process or not?” (…)

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