Talk of pretrial detention of former President Donald Trump is not only absurd, but it is not based in law, and would merely be a transparent effort to silence his presidential campaign, according to former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker on Newsmax.
"I've never seen a broader abuse of prosecutorial discretion," Whitaker told Tuesday's "The Chris Salcedo Show," responding to the latest anticipation of another indictment coming from special counsel Jack Smith, whose wife donates to President Joe Biden and is a Michelle Obama documentary producer.
"They are trying to get Donald Trump off the playing field, and, you know, obviously, any suggestion of pretrial detention tells you exactly what they're trying to do is prevent him from campaigning and sharing his message."
Trump condemned the "election interference" effort by Smith, Democrats, anti-Trump forces, and the Biden administration's politicized Justice Department in a statement earlier Tuesday.
"It is the only way they can stop him," Whitaker told host Chris Salcedo, who noted legally there are "only really two reasons you can detain a person under the federal system.
Flight risk and a risk to themselves or the community — Donald Trump is neither," Whitaker concluded. "There's no reason to detain him pretrial and you know he should be allowed to continue his presidential campaign, and this does look more and more like election interference."
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