‘Completely insubstantial’: State cases against Donald Trump lashed

Former US attorney general William Barr slams the state and federal cases level against President-elect Donald Trump, claiming the state cases are “completely insubstantial” and the federal cases have “fallen apart”. “Under our law, you can’t have these kinds of cases brought against a sitting president or maintained against a sitting president while he is in office because it interferes with his ability to conduct the public business,” Mr Barr told Sky News host Andrew Bolt. “The state cases, I think, are completely insubstantial … the federal cases have fallen apart - there have been a series of court rulings that have essentially shredded them. “At the end of the day, they are not going to be able to hurt Trump with these cases.”