Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) again and again ducked when Dana Bash confronted him about former President Donald Trump’s claim that he “just about escaped dying” all the way through the 2023 FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago.

In a contentious interview on CNN’s State of the Union Sunday, Bash advised Scott, “Federal prosecutors are now requesting a gag order in that labeled documents case after the previous president said that FBI sellers who search Mar-A-Lago had been, ‘locked and loaded, ready to take me out,’ and that he ‘just about escaped death.’ However Senator, that same language was additionally within the order for President Biden’s house. So do you believe the attorney normal that this is not handiest false, what the former president said, however extraordinarily bad?”

Scott, in response, stated, “I saw the video of the SWAT staff from the FBI raiding Mar-A-Lago. I have now not viewed the same video of them raiding Joe Biden’s garage, so I’d love to have that comparison. However extra importantly, once again, we discover ourselves reinforcing this two-tiered justice device — the place we see a unique usual for Republicans and namely a distinct standard for Donald Trump.”

A sitting Democratic U.S. Senator (Bob Menendez) and House Member (Henry Cuellar) are each at present below federal indictment — which would seem to deal a blow to the argument that Republicans are the ambitions of a two-tiered justice gadget.

Bash adopted up on her query after the senator dodged.

“What I actually am asking you about is the language getting used — which is deceptive,” Bash stated. “People like Steve Bannon called this an ‘assassination strive.’ Doesn’t that roughly language challenge you?”

Scott, again, deflected.

“Observing the remedy of Joe Biden by means of the justice machine, when they have discovered him unable to stand earlier than a jury of his friends as a result of he’s too outdated, frankly, and his memory is shot, that’s not the roughly easy, honest justice device that Americans expect,” Scott mentioned. “So it is vitally tough to look this justice system presently playing out where it is honest to each Donald Trump and Republicans, as we’ve viewed the kid gloves and the insulation around Joe Biden and his family. We all need fairness without any query, particularly when Girl Justice must put on a blindfold. However we don’t see that enjoying out, Dana.”

Watch above, via CNN.

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