Missouri candidate tries to out-MAGA his rival by blowing up Trump evidence in new campaign ad

Clad in a fleece sweater vest, Will Scharf, an attorney for Donald Trump who wants to be Missouri’s next attorney general, fires a grenade launcher at a stack of evidence boxes and indictments in his latest campaign ad.

“Joe Biden and his corrupt allies are wrecking our legal system, doing everything they can to stop President Trump and the MAGA agenda,” he says in the ad. “It’s time for a Missouri attorney general who will return fire.”

He then cocks his firearm, and the stack of boxes explodes.

Scharf, who played a key role in Trump’s “immunity” defense from criminal prosecution and has vowed to fight his felony convictions in New York, is running in a Republican primary against the state’s current attorney general, Andrew Bailey, who is also competing for Trump’s attention with a series of lawsuits and complaints on his behalf.

The state of Missouri is not involved in litigation or criminal prosecutions involving the former president whatsoever.

The primary race between both men has spiraled into a competition for the former president’s approval with attempts to out-MAGA one another by highlighting their Trump-approved bona fides.

Within the last few months, Bailey has sued the state of New York over a court-imposed gag order against Trump, testified to Congress about what he called the “politically motivated, legally specious, and corrupt prosecution” of the former president, and demanded that the Department of Justice turn over documents about Trump’s prosecutions.

Both men have repeatedly claimed, without evidence, that President Joe Biden is “weaponizing” the federal government against his Republican rival and directing the cases against him.

Last month, Scharf sparred with ABC News host George Stephanopoulos