Biase said the charges had made Trump “more relevant,” and nodded in agreement when the reporter asked if bringing the charges had backfired.
Update: In a statement, Nicholas Biase said, "I was recently made aware of a video where I regretfully made some statements in a private and social setting that don’t reflect my views about two local and state prosecutions. I said these things in an effort to please and impress someone I just met, who was secretly filming me."
He added, "I’m deeply sorry to the local and state law enforcement officials working on these matters, who deserve more respect than I showed them. I should have known better."
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View on XA new undercover video from Louder with Crowder’s MugClub Undercover unit has revealed Nicholas Biase, Department of Justice Chief of Public Affairs, calling the multitude of cases brought against 2024 GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump a "travesty of justice," adding that this was why Trump is surging in the polls.
Speaking on the case led by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg that saw Trump convicted of 24 counts of felony falsifying business records, Biase, Chief of Public Affairs, US Department of Justice, US Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York, said Bragg "was stacking charges and, like, rearranging things just to make it fit a case. No, honestly, I think the case [against Trump in NYC] is nonsense."
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View on X"Every real estate person in New York does what [Trump] did. Nobody's ever been charged with this. It's all him [Trump]. And that's why, like, [Trump's] surging in the polls. You know, it's a perversion of justice." Biase said that he's known Bragg for 15 years, and that Bragg used to work in his office. Biase also said that Bragg's star witness in the case, Michael Cohen, is a "psycho."
Biase said the charges had made Trump "more relevant," and nodded in agreement when the reporter asked if bringing the charges had backfired. "It sure did," he said. He later said that the point of prosecuting Trump was to "make him a convict" and a "convicted felon."
Biase noted a 90-day rule at the federal level where "You can’t make any decisions on cases that are going to affect an election," but added that this was not the case at the state level. He said the state level was like "the f*cking wild west."
He said that Democrats were "so obsessed" with getting Trump.
Speaking on the Georgia election case brought forth by Fulton County Da Fani Willis, Biase said, "it’s a travesty of justice, to put it mildly. It’s a mockery of justice. She is a joke. Like, her and her boyfriend she was seeing, the whole thing is disgusting. And they’re just out to get [Trump].
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