West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, who has called for former President Donald Trump’s Washington, D.C., trial to be moved to a “fairer venue” in the Mountain State, is blasting prosecutors for their call to start the proceedings on Jan. 2 — less than two weeks before the Iowa Republican caucuses on Jan. 15.
“This is outrageous,” the Republican official said on X, the site formerly known as Twitter, Thursday. “How do you convince America this is not a political prosecution.”
