Bird’s statements about Trump trial show she’s unfit for AG role

Growing up in small town Iowa, our mother taught us to always tell the truth, treat people fairly with respect. Honesty was the most important.

When lawyers are admitted to practice law in Iowa, they take an oath to “maintain respect due to courts of justice and judicial officers,” and to “abstain from all offensive personality and advance no fact prejudicial to the honor or reputation of a party or witness.”

When Brenna Bird abandoned her duties as Iowa Attorney General to declare at the courthouse before TV cameras in New York that the trial of Donald Trump was a “scam and a sham,” she ignored the oath to become a lawyer and the ethics code, which directs lawyers to avoid false or reckless statements concerning the qualifications or integrity of a judge and to defend the courts.

The jurors, which Donald Trump helped select, applied the law to the facts, as instructed, and found Trump guilty of falsifying business records to promote his election, a violation of New York law.

Attorney Bird falsely said the New York state case was initiated by the Biden administration. It wasn’t. She falsely said the case was a scam. It wasn’t. She falsely said it was a sham. It wasn’t. She said politics have no place in the courtroom. She’s right. She shouldn’t have.

That day in front of the courthouse, Attorney Bird proved herself to be dishonest, reckless, and narcissistic.

Mom would say she’s unfit to serve as Iowa’s top lawyer.

Dennis Naughton

Cedar Rapids