A Republican columnist rejected former President Donald Trump\u2019s cries of \u201cwitch hunt\u201d and victimization \u2013 and urged his prosecution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Writing for the conservative National Review,<\/a> Andrew McCarthy – a former prosecutor who authored a book called \u2018Ball of Collusion: The Plot To Rig An Election And Destroy A Presidency\u2002<\/a>\u2013 said GOP arguments that Trump\u2019s enemies were aiming to bring him down make no sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNow, since we\u2019re hearing a lot, and we\u2019re going to hear a lot more, about selective prosecution, about the sense that the \u201cboxes hoax\u201d is the \u201cbiggest witch hunt of all time,\u201d understand this,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe evidence of this soliloquy \u2014 wherein it was Trump-splained that a \u201cgreat job\u201d by a lawyer entails making incriminating evidence disappear and taking the fall for it so the client escapes jeopardy \u2014 does not come from Donald Trump\u2019s enemies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Instead, he said, the 37-count indictment leveled at Trump<\/a> comes from evidence gleaned from the former president\u2019s own lawyers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He went on: \u201cThese are not the people who want to take him out. This is not Joe Biden, Liz Cheney, congressional Democrats, or the \u201cfake news\u201d media. It\u2019s not even RINO Republicans or that (apparently) fiercest of political combatants, \u201cAda\u201d Hutchinson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNo, the evidence comes from Trump\u2019s lawyers. The people who were trying to minimize his criminal exposure and push back against his destructive tendencies. The people who were trying to help him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Included in the evidence are notes made by lawyer Evan Corcoran, detailing conversations in which Trump discussed denying he has classified documents and even suggested they be destroyed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAs for Trump, say what you want about Democrats being out to destroy him,\u201d McCarthy wrote. \u201cI know all about that \u2014 wrote a book about it<\/a>, in fact. But if Trump ends up being destroyed in this case, it will be based on the accounts of people who had his best interests at heart.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n He added: \u201cEvery official who is entrusted with access to the nation\u2019s secrets, and who then betrays that trust by willful law violations and cover-ups, should be prosecuted. Every . . . single . . . one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAnd none of them has any business near power.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n