Right-wing figures reacted to a Georgia hearing involving Donald Trump's effort to dismiss his RICO case with outrage over the way the legal system was treating former president.
At a Thursday hearing in Fulton County, Trump's attorney, Steve Sadow, claimed that Trump should not be prosecuted for an election interference conspiracy because of his First Amendment free speech rights. Georgia prosecutors, however, said the case was about more than free speech.
Conservative podcaster Steve Bannon, a former Trump adviser, responded by claiming the judicial system was at war with Trump.
"There's a hearing going on right now in Georgia on the whole Fani Willis situation and about different defendants and also about President Trump and part of his case," Bannon said. "In courtrooms across the country, this concept of lawfare is, I believe, in their mind; they think it is probably the only way they can defeat us by taking out some of our top people."
As he raised his voice, Bannon pointed to legal actions against Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman and Jeffrey Clark.
"It was like Nazi judges, like a show trial in Moscow, just like what's happening [with] President Trump up in New York!" he exclaimed. "The law schools are all progressive Democrats. All that you have to draw three-quarters of the judges, this is what they're trying to use against you. And this is what you have to break."
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"When you talk about the fight to take your country back, they have weaponized the law," he continued. "Hello! The Bolsheviks and the Nazis knew what they were doing about crushing free people or crushing people and that's what they used."
On Fox News, Judge Jeanine Pirro speculated whether Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee would throw out Trump's case on free speech grounds.
"I don't know if he has that much strength," Pirro asserted. "I know his election is coming up soon.
"The fact that he threw off [former prosecutor] Nathan Wade and not Fani Willis when she's the one who brought him in, gave him the money, engaged in the relationship, lied about it, you know?" she opined. "And she's still on. Tells me McAfee doesn't have the nerve to do it."
"Is the questioning of the election results illegal now?" Pirro complained. "There's no free speech if this case goes."
