George Conway on MSNBC

U.S. attorney and Trump critic George Conway told Bulwark publisher Sarah Longwell that it’s not enough for President Donald Trump to attack free speech and use government levers to persecute his perceived enemies. It’s the gaping dearth of intelligence he employs to do it.

“I mean, he was telling us he would do these things and people didn't believe him because they think he's a buffoon,” Conway said on the “George Conway Explains It All” podcast. “They think he's a moron, including the people who worked for him before and people who voted for him. … He's programmed this way. He's a sick man. … He's a narcissistic sociopath who has no conscience, no belief in the integrity of other human beings, no decency, no honor, no belief in rules. He is somebody who wants to control everything and everything that he cannot control or bend to his liking should be destroyed.”

Conway cited the Department of Justice's recent indictment of former FBI head James Comey as example, pointing out that Trump-appointed former U.S. Attorney Erik Siebert had enough intelligence to know a case could not be argued against Comey, so Trump replaced him.

New U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan announced the charges just days after Trump called on Bondi to act "NOW" to indict the former FBI director in a post to his Truth Social platform.

“And what happened was Halligan ends up going into the grand jury by herself. She's never been in a grand jury before. She has no idea what she's doing. And … she barely survived the grand jury, getting only 14 out of 23 votes on two of the counts and one of the counts that the grand jury rejected,” Conway said. “And when she goes into the federal court to the magistrate judge to present the indictment, she presents both a draft indictment that got partially rejected and the indictment that she signed, but she signed both and then she pretended she hadn't seen one of them. It was just a mess.”

“She has no idea what she was doing,” Conway continued. “But the important thing was … no other authorized DOJ lawyers went in there with her. And if her appointment is invalid, the indictment is invalid. And, lo and behold, all of a sudden we now have a situation where they cannot fix this.”

“Even if Pam Bondi, Donald Trump, and Lindsey Halligan had a brain among them, they can't fix this because the statute of limitations expired at midnight on September 30th,” Conway said. “She was the only one who signed the indictment, and she had no more authority than you or I or my corgis to sign that and present that indictment to the grand jury and it's over for that case.”

Conway said he could not see anything saving “an incompetent president and his incompetent allies from screwing up an appointment of a US attorney in order to bring a politically charged and baseless case.”

"This is quintessentially Trumpian,” Conway told Longwell. “It is mind-blowingly corrupt and unfathomably stupid. I mean, it is just classic Trump.”

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