Former Colorado Republican Congressman Ken Buck said the recent verdict in former President Donald Trump's hush money trial sets a dangerous precedent.
“This is a dangerous precedent. If you don't think Republican prosecutors and the Republican attorney general will change this, they will,” Buck said during an interview with Bill Maher. in accordance with the hill. “And what I saw in Congress was I saw two unjustified impeachments and Democrats talking about it after the fact.”
A New York jury found for Trump guilty of all 34 charges of falsifying business records during his 2016 presidential bid to conceal a payment to porn star Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about an alleged sexual encounter with her.
Trump, who is also the presumptive GOP presidential nominee in 2024, now becomes the first US president to be found guilty of criminal wrongdoing.
Buck retired from Congress earlier this year and has been a frequent critic of the 45th president.
He predicted that Trump will likely face no prison time. His sentencing is set for July 11.
“I don't think he should go to prison for a white-collar crime like that. I just don't think that's the sentence,” Buck said. “If you look at the sentencing history for crimes like this in Manhattan, I don't think it's going to happen in prison.”
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