Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey / ago.mo.gov (Left)
CV NEWS FEED // Republican Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced he is suing the state of New York, citing former President Donald Trump’s controversial conviction in the state late last month.
“I will be filing suit against the State of New York for their direct attack on our democratic process through unconstitutional lawfare against President Trump,” Bailey wrote on X (formerly Twitter) Thursday night. “It’s time to restore the rule of law.”
“We have to fight back against a rogue prosecutor who is trying to take a presidential candidate off the campaign trail,” the attorney general continued in a subsequent post.
He wrote that the heavily-criticized guilty verdict against Trump “sabotages Missourians’ right to a free and fair election.”
Missouri is a heavily Republican state which Trump carried four years ago by a 15-point margin. It last voted for a Democratic presidential candidate in 1996.
The former president continues to maintain that he is innocent of all legal accusations levied against him.
“Radical progressives in New York are trying to rig the 2024 election,” Bailey told FOX News on Thursday. “We have to stand up and fight back.”
Last month, Bailey sent the Biden administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for documents showing communications records between the DOJ and the various prosecutors investigating Trump.
Prosecutors named by Bailey in his May 9 FOIA request include “Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, New York Attorney General Letitia James, Special Prosecutor Jack Smith [and] Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.”
Bragg’s prosecution had resulted in the May 30 verdict, where a Manhattan jury convicted Trump on 34 counts of falsifying business records.
“The investigations and subsequent prosecutions of [Trump] appear to have been conducted in coordination with the [DOJ],” Bailey alleged in the request:
This is demonstrated only in part by the move of the third-highest ranking member of the [DOJ], Matthew Colangelo, to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office in order to prosecute former [Trump] in the so-called ‘hush money’ trial in December 2022.
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The attorney general stated in a press release announcing the FOIA request: “Thanks to evidence that has come to light, my office has reason to believe Biden’s corrupt [DOJ] is the headquarters of the illicit prosecutions against President Trump.”
Bailey added at the time:
In order to protect the rights of all Missouri voters who plan to participate in the 2024 presidential election, the State of Missouri has the right to know to what extent the prosecutions of a prominent presidential candidate are being coordinated by the federal government, which is currently run by President Trump’s principal political opponent
“President Trump is absolutely right,” Bailey told FOX’s Martha MacCallum in a May interview. “The illicit nature of these witch hunt prosecutions is self-evident to anyone paying attention.”
“Broadly speaking, but specifically Alvin Bragg’s prosecution at the Manhattan District Attorney’s office,” he indicated. “It’s not supported by the facts or the law.”
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