Outgoing Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) told reporters he doesn’t really care about President Trump‘s possible new legal troubles.

There’s been a new round questions about Trump’s legal exposure in the last few days, thanks to Robert Mueller‘s memos and the the Federal investigators who implicated the president in connection with Michael Cohen‘s campaign finance lawbreaking. But Hatch, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, reportedly told CNN’s Manu Raju that he doesn’t care about Trump’s alleged crimes — and doesn’t think the president was actually involved in Cohen’s hush money payments on his behalf.

Hatch dismisses allegations of Trump crimes over hush money.

Asked if he had any concerns, Hatch said: “The Democrats will do anything to hurt this president.” Told it was alleged by SDNY, Hatch told me: “Okay but I don’t care; all I can say is he’s doing a good job as President” — Manu Raju (@mkraju) December 10, 2018

Hatch added this when asked if he was concerned about allegations.

“No because I don’t think he was involved in crimes but even then, you know, you can make anything a crime under the current laws; if you want to you can blow it way out of proportion you can do a lot of things.” — Manu Raju (@mkraju) December 10, 2018

Hatch went on to suggest Trump’s alleged wrongdoing from before he became president holds no bearing on the present.

Hatch also told me: “President Trump before he became president that’s another world. Since he’s become president this economy has charged ahead. … And I think we ought to judge him on that basis other than trying to drum up things from the past that may or may not be true.” — Manu Raju (@mkraju) December 10, 2018

The counterargument among critics is that Trump supposedly ordered his personal lawyer to break the law in order to help secure his victory in the 2016 election.

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