Speaking to Fox News Channel host Sean Hannity after former President Donald Trump was convicted on all 34 business records charges brought against him by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, attorney and Fox News personality Mark Levin called for breaking out the “legal brass knuckles” to fight the conviction, arguing that dramatic and drastic action is quite necessary.
Beginning, Levin argued that none of the elements for a successful prosecution had, in his view, been met, and that the prosecutor and jury were biased against Trump. He said, “I’ll say this; no crime, no jurisdiction, no due process, conflicted judge, Soros prosecutor, Manhattan jury.” Continuing, he added, You know, I’m going to tell you something.”
Levin, then explaining what he said he wanted to tell Hannity, spoke about his own legal career and how he fought the bureaucratic agencies. He said, “I’ve spent most of my legal career, not as a former federal prosecutor, although I served as a chief of staff to an attorney general, I’ve spent most of my legal career fighting these people, suing the federal government, the DOJ, the IRS, the Treasury Department, the EPA, suing campaigns, fighting over voting rights laws and so forth.”
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“Take These Bastards On”: Mark Levin Sounds Off After Trump Conviction, Calls For Dramatic Action
By Will TannerJune 2, 2024Updated:June 2, 2024
Speaking to Fox News Channel host Sean Hannity after former President Donald Trump was convicted on all 34 business records charges brought against him by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, attorney and Fox News personality Mark Levin called for breaking out the “legal brass knuckles” to fight the conviction, arguing that dramatic and drastic action is quite necessary.
Beginning, Levin argued that none of the elements for a successful prosecution had, in his view, been met, and that the prosecutor and jury were biased against Trump. He said, “I’ll say this; no crime, no jurisdiction, no due process, conflicted judge, Soros prosecutor, Manhattan jury.” Continuing, he added, You know, I’m going to tell you something.”
Levin, then explaining what he said he wanted to tell Hannity, spoke about his own legal career and how he fought the bureaucratic agencies. He said, “I’ve spent most of my legal career, not as a former federal prosecutor, although I served as a chief of staff to an attorney general, I’ve spent most of my legal career fighting these people, suing the federal government, the DOJ, the IRS, the Treasury Department, the EPA, suing campaigns, fighting over voting rights laws and so forth.”
Using that experience as a guide, he noted that far too many lawyers sit around and complain rather than doing anything productive, an attitude he abhors. Explaining that, he said, “And one thing I don’t think our audience understands, and you need to understand, we have too many lawyers who are risk-averse, too many lawyers who will whine and complain.”
Contrasting that with what he thinks must be done to fight Trump’s conviction, Levin suggested that it is time to put on the “legal brass knuckles” and take the matter to the different appeals courts available, saying, “I have spent 40 years sitting down with people who put on legal brass knuckles and take these bastards on in court. I’m at the appellate and Supreme Court level. That’s where my focus has been my entire career.”
Returning to the whining problem, Levin said, “We need to stop whining about how long that’s going to take. Seek any emergency, immediate appeal that you possibly can. That’s one lane. And the other lane is to try like hell to get to the Supreme Court. People say, ‘well, they’re not going to take it.’ You know what? If George Patton was said, ‘I don’t think I can get to the battle of the bulge in time,’ we would have lost World War II. I am sick and tired of these legal defeatists.”
Mr. Levin then further added, on much the same subject of stopping with the whining and getting on with the fighting, “We need to stop whining, stop complaining. We know what the hell we’re up against. It’s not news. It’s a fact. We got to fight these people with our smarts. We have to take some risks. We need to push the edge of the envelope.”
Watch Levin sound off on the matter here:
