WTH is Going On With Trump’s Trials? John Yoo Explains

Former president Donald Trump is on trial in New York over hush
money payments made before the 2016 election. The only problem?
Hush money payments as part of non-disclosure agreements are not
illegal. New York state prosecutor Alvin Bragg alleges that by
improperly filing the payments in Trump’s business records he was
trying to conceal “another crime” – campaign finance law
violations. Here’s the problem: Bragg not only lacks authority to
prosecute campaign finance violations, but even the Biden
administration’s Justice Department did not pursue campaign
finance violation charges against Trump. Is Bragg’s case against
Trump constitutional? And how will such politically motivated
cases eat away at America’s rule of law?


John Yoo is the Emanuel Heller Professor of Law at the University
of California at Berkeley, a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the
American Enterprise Institute, and a Visiting Fellow at the
Hoover Institution and Stanford University. Yoo was a law clerk
for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, the general council of
the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the former head of the Office
of Legal Counsel in the Justice Department. His most recent book
is The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Supreme Court (Regnery,
2023) with Robert Delahunty.


Read the transcript here.