This week, Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird made a strong case against politics in the courtroom by appearing at Donald Trump’s New York trial on a trip paid for by her largest campaign donor.
There Bird was, in a New York courtroom. Behind Trump along with some of his other political allies. She wore a bright red jacket. Couldn’t miss her.
“What we need to do is get politics out of the courtroom and let President Trump get back on the campaign trail,” Bird said at a news conference during a break in the trial, according to Radio Iowa. “Let the American people decide who the next leader of the free world will be and politics has absolutely no place in this courtroom or any other.”
That’s the President Trump who has vowed to prosecute his political enemies if elected.
So, here was Iowa’s top state prosecutor in a New York courtroom attacking other state prosecutors for charging Trump with falsifying business documents to cover up an affair with an adult film star and keep voters from finding out about it. In New York City, the financial capital of the world, falsifying business records is frowned upon.
Trump? Fraud? That can’t be right.
Her trip was paid for by the political arm of the Republican Attorneys General Association. The association’s RAGA super PAC donated $2 million to Bird’s campaign during the 2022 cycle.
It was unseemly. But we live in unseemly times.
Trump’s Monday entourage didn’t show up because they love the guy. They came to bash the prosecution because Trump cannot. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee is under a gag order precluding him from ripping the judge, prosecutor and witnesses. But the Republican politicians were free to bash the case and grind Trump’s axes all they wanted.
Maybe Bird believes New York prosecutors are purely political because she is. You’re never more than a few days away from another politically motivated lawsuit joined by Bird assailing the Biden administration.
Environmental protection is among Bird’s favorite targets. This week, she signed on to a lawsuit to scrap higher fuel efficiency standards for heavy duty vehicles. It might push companies to use electrical vehicles that won’t need ethanol. To the ramparts!
She’s joined legal action to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from enforcing tailpipe emissions rules, hopped aboard a lawsuit aimed at EPA coal plant emission limits and attacked extending Clean Water Act protections to scores of wetlands.
Bird is among red states suing to stop Title IX sex discrimination protection from covering LGBTQ students. She went after the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives over rules governing pistol braces.
She signed onto a letter warning Walgreens and CVS to not send abortion medications by mail and lent Iowa’s support to a Texas lawsuit seeking to overturn the Food and Drug Administration approval of the abortion drug mifepristone. And, of course, Bird has stopped using victim compensation fund dollars to pay for emergency contraception for rape victims in Iowa.
So, Bird has no compunction about bringing politics into court, so long as it’s her brand of politics. But this is what voters wanted when they gave us the Bird.
(319) 398-8262; todd.dorman@thegazette.com
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There Bird was, in a New York courtroom. Behind Trump along with some of his other political allies. She wore a bright red jacket. Couldn’t miss her.
“What we need to do is get politics out of the courtroom and let President Trump get back on the campaign trail,” Bird said at a news conference during a break in the trial, according to Radio Iowa. “Let the American people decide who the next leader of the free world will be and politics has absolutely no place in this courtroom or any other.”
That’s the President Trump who has vowed to prosecute his political enemies if elected.
So, here was Iowa’s top state prosecutor in a New York courtroom attacking other state prosecutors for charging Trump with falsifying business documents to cover up an affair with an adult film star and keep voters from finding out about it. In New York City, the financial capital of the world, falsifying business records is frowned upon.
Trump? Fraud? That can’t be right.
Her trip was paid for by the political arm of the Republican Attorneys General Association. The association’s RAGA super PAC donated $2 million to Bird’s campaign during the 2022 cycle.
It was unseemly. But we live in unseemly times.
Trump’s Monday entourage didn’t show up because they love the guy. They came to bash the prosecution because Trump cannot. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee is under a gag order precluding him from ripping the judge, prosecutor and witnesses. But the Republican politicians were free to bash the case and grind Trump’s axes all they wanted.
Maybe Bird believes New York prosecutors are purely political because she is. You’re never more than a few days away from another politically motivated lawsuit joined by Bird assailing the Biden administration.
Environmental protection is among Bird’s favorite targets. This week, she signed on to a lawsuit to scrap higher fuel efficiency standards for heavy duty vehicles. It might push companies to use electrical vehicles that won’t need ethanol. To the ramparts!
She’s joined legal action to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from enforcing tailpipe emissions rules, hopped aboard a lawsuit aimed at EPA coal plant emission limits and attacked extending Clean Water Act protections to scores of wetlands.
Bird is among red states suing to stop Title IX sex discrimination protection from covering LGBTQ students. She went after the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives over rules governing pistol braces.
She signed onto a letter warning Walgreens and CVS to not send abortion medications by mail and lent Iowa’s support to a Texas lawsuit seeking to overturn the Food and Drug Administration approval of the abortion drug mifepristone. And, of course, Bird has stopped using victim compensation fund dollars to pay for emergency contraception for rape victims in Iowa.
So, Bird has no compunction about bringing politics into court, so long as it’s her brand of politics. But this is what voters wanted when they gave us the Bird.
(319) 398-8262; todd.dorman@thegazette.com
Opinion: Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird hits the Big Apple to defend the big liar
It was unseemly. But we live in unseemly times
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