'Political prosecutions': Republican AGs demand end to 'lawfare' prosecutions of President-elect Trump

Republican attorneys wide are putting President-elect Donald Trump's prosecutors connected notice, urging them to halt "political prosecutions of the incoming president."

"The cases brought against President Trump, peculiarly the transgression prosecutions, had thing to bash with crime," Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird told Fox News Digital successful an interrogation this week.

"They had everything to bash with the information that helium was moving for president again. He is innocent. He didn't bash thing wrong, and those cases ne'er should person been brought successful the archetypal place. That was different mode they were trying to wage run lawfare."

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Iowa lawyer wide Brenna Bird speaks during the 2nd time of the 2024 Republican National Convention astatine the Fiserv Forum successful Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 16, 2024. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP) (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)

Bird, alongside much than 20 different attorneys general, sent a missive to Special Counsel Jack Smith, New York Attorney General Letitia James, and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, calling connected them to driblet their cases to debar the hazard of a "constitutional crisis."

Attorneys wide from Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia signed onto the letter.

"Mr. Smith, a national tribunal has already dismissed your claims successful 1 lawsuit owed to your improper appointment," the AGs wrote successful the letter. "That assignment flouts some the Appointments Clause and Article II of the U.S. Constitution. Not lone that, your prosecutions of President Trump—President Biden and Vice President Harris’s governmental rival—violated aggregate Department of Justice policies."

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Then-Republican statesmanlike nominee erstwhile President Donald Trump speaks during a run event, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024, successful Mint Hill, N.C.  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

"President of the United States is the astir important occupation successful the world," they wrote. "The President leads the escaped world. And America conscionable gave President Trump a mandate to pb the United States to a brighter future. Prosecutions aimed astatine "self-promotion" are astatine nary clip appropriate."

The Department of Justice announced connected Wednesday that it is seeking to upwind down 2 national transgression cases against President-elect Donald Trump up of his 2nd term. 

Trump was indicted connected 37 national counts successful June 2023 connected charges stemming from Special Counsel Jack Smith's probe into the Capitol riot connected Jan. 6, 2021. He pleaded not blameworthy to each charges.

Trump was indicted in Georgia successful August 2023 aft a yearslong transgression probe led by authorities prosecutors into his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 statesmanlike predetermination successful the state.

Trump pleaded not blameworthy to each counts.

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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis holds a property league successful the Fulton County Government Center aft a expansive assemblage voted to indict erstwhile President Donald Trump and 18 others successful Atlanta, Georgia connected August 14, 2023.  (Christian Monterrosa/AFP via Getty Images)

In aboriginal 2023, Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee dismissed six of the charges against Trump, saying that District Attorney Fani Willis had failed to allege capable detail. The concern was past thrown into disarray erstwhile it was revealed that Willis had reportedly had an "improper affair" with Nathan Wade, a authoritative she had hired to assistance bring the lawsuit against Trump. Wade was aboriginal removed.

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About 3 months into taking office, James announced an probe into the Trump Organization, claiming determination was grounds indicating that the president and his company had falsely valued assets to get loans, security sum and taxation deductions. The probe was launched aft Trump’s erstwhile idiosyncratic attorney, Michael Cohen, who had antecedently served national situation clip for violating run concern laws, testified earlier Congress that the Trump Organization had exaggerated the worth of assets. 

Fox News Digital's Haley Chi-Sing and Emma Colton contributed to this report.