The massive fines and interest growing against former President Donald Trump in his civil case in New York point to an Eighth Amendment violation because of the multimillion-dollar amounts involved, former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker said on Newsmax Sunday.
“There are supposed to be no excessive fines and no cruel and unusual punishment,” Whitaker said on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America,” adding that New York Attorney General Letitia James brought the case against Trump as a campaign promise and a “vindictive effort” to push Trump and his companies out of the state.
“Our Founding Fathers knew this was a weapon used by the state to harm citizens that are out of favor,” Whitaker said. “[And] 250 years later, almost here we are with the same threat because the Founding Fathers understood one thing, and that was human nature.”
He added James is “celebrating” the accrual of the fine’s interest in the case every day on X, formerly Twitter, with the amount now reaching almost $450 million, but he said he thinks the Supreme Court will knock down that amount, as “there was not a single victim in that case.”
Meanwhile, Whitaker said it is hard to predict what will happen with special counsel Jack Smith urging federal Judge Aileen Cannon to reject Trump’s efforts to dismiss the classified documents case against him in Florida.
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