“I mean, it’s tough, right? It is a balancing act,” Vance said. “I reject this notion, and I hope that people aren’t saying this seriously, you know, ‘lock him up’ as applied to Donald Trump. Well, no, every criminal defendant is entitled to all of the protections that the Constitution provides, including Donald Trump. So, there’s that part of the balance. And then there’s this notion of protecting political leaders from the criminal justice system being weaponized, something Republicans are throwing around these days without much basis for it. But we don’t want to be that banana republic where the criminal justice system becomes a tool of the White House or a tool of political people.”
“That, I think, is why prosecutors were right to go slow early on,” she continued. “They were breaking fresh ground. They wanted to ensure that before they investigated a candidate, then a sitting president, that they crossed every ‘I’ and dotted every ‘T,’ and that was frankly the right decision.”
Vance in a Friday podcast episode accused former President Donald Trump of
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