North Carolina Rep. Dan Bishop (R) compared former President Trump’s current legal situation to being a Black person in the segregated South.
“It’s as bad as it was in Alabama in 1950… if a person happened to be Black, in order to get justice,” Bishop said Monday on “The Pete Kaliner Show” on Charlotte radio station WBT. “And, that’s what they did in New York, so it was fundamentally rigged and the people who attacked me for saying so, can attack all they want.”
The former president became the first former U.S. president to be convicted in criminal court on Thursday, following a jury finding him guilty on all counts of falsifying business records to hide alleged affairs amid his 2016 campaign.
“These guys, [Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg,] [Special Counsel Jack Smith,] ultimately, these folks are doing things, they’re using power in a way that they know is wrong, or they have no excuse for not knowing it, and they should be prosecuted for their interference with the election,” Bishop said.
Bishop, a candidate for North Carolina attorney general, also appeared commented on the recent verdict in the Trump hush money trial in posts on the social platform X on Thursday.
“Election interference to ‘get Trump,’” Bishop said in one of the posts. “It’s never been about justice - it’s about rigging and weaponizing our justice system against anyone who threatens their grip on power. We must end the leftist lawfare in November.”
Rep. Jeff Jackson (D-N.C.), who is running against Bishop to become the Tar Heel State’s attorney general, shot back at Bishop in his own post on X in response to the Republican.
“This is my opponent for Attorney General. He immediately dismisses 34 unanimous verdicts by a jury as ‘rigged,’” Jackson said in the post. “He’s never been a prosecutor - and it shows. Disagreeing with a jury is one thing, but saying the whole thing is rigged is dishonest and destructive.”
The Hill has reached out to Bishop's office and campaign for comment.
