(WGHP) — A North Carolina congressman vying for attorney general compared former President Donald Trump’s New York conviction to the legal struggles of Black people in the pre-Civil Rights South.
U.S. Rep. Dan Bishop (R-N.C.), who is running for attorney general against U.S. Rep. Jeff Jackson (D-N.C.), appeared on The Pete Kaliner Show, a daily local politics podcast based out of Charlotte, on a June 3 episode. In the episode, the two discuss the alleged “weaponization of the courts” and Trump’s conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in connection with hush money payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels.
On the topic of President Joe Biden, Kaliner asks Bishop if Biden could “face charges” for forgiving student loan debt “in exchange for votes.”
Bishop responds, saying that he is “under attack” by the News and Observer for stating that the trial against Trump was “rigged” but added that he ultimately believes that state charges against Biden for his student loan debt forgiveness plan, which he characterized as “transparent vote buying,” would be “extravagant” and that he doesn’t believe in “trumping up prosecutions.”
“But I do believe that the people who are engaging in selective prosecution, vindictive prosecution, using it, doing it, and when I say it’s rigged, it’s not just they don’t go into a fair fight,” Bishop said. “They go into a place where they know the fight is unfair. It’s as bad as it was in Alabama in 1950 if a person happened to be Black in order to get justice, 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.”
FOX8 reached out to Bishop’s campaign for further explanation of this comparison but he has not yet responded.