Two longstanding GOP foes of former President Donald Trump slammed Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case against the 45th president Tuesday, calling the charges an “overreach” and “weak.”

John Bolton, Trump’s former national security adviser, said on CNN that “as someone who very strongly does not want Donald Trump to get the Republican presidential nomination, I’m extraordinarily distressed” by the unsealed indictment.

“I think this is even weaker than I feared it would be,” he said, “and I think it’s easily subject to being dismissed or a quick acquittal for Trump.” 

The 76-year-old former president pleaded not guilty Tuesday to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.

The charges stem from hush money payments to two women — porn star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal — meant to keep them quiet ahead of the 2016 presidential election about alleged extramarital encounters they had with Trump.

Bragg is trying the case based on a novel legal theory that the records were falsified by Trump in the service of violating federal campaign finance law — a crime to which Cohen pleaded guilty in August 2018.

Bolton, who has said he is considering a 2024 presidential run, argued that “there is no basis in the statutory language to say that Trump’s behavior forms either a contribution or an expenditure under federal law.”

“If you can construe the statute to cover this behavior, then I think it violates the First Amendment,” the former US ambassador to the United Nations added. 

Meanwhile, Romney — an opponent of Trump since the real estate mogul’s successful 2016 presidential campaign — issued a statement saying: “I believe President Trump’s character and conduct make him unfit for office.”

“Even so, I believe the New York prosecutor has stretched to reach felony criminal charges in order to fit a political agenda,” Romney added.

“No one is above the law, not even former presidents, but everyone is entitled to equal treatment under the law. The prosecutor’s overreach sets a dangerous precedent for criminalizing political opponents and damages the public’s faith in our justice system.”

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who last week vowed to hold Bragg “and his unprecedented abuse of power to account,” similarly tweeted on Tuesday that the “politicized charges” against Trump will be scrutinized by Congress. 

“Alvin Bragg is attempting to interfere in our democratic process by invoking federal law to bring politicized charges against President Trump, admittedly using federal funds, while at the same time arguing that the peoples’ representatives in Congress lack jurisdiction to investigate this farce,” McCarthy wrote in a tweet.

“Not so. Bragg’s weaponization of the federal justice process will be held accountable by Congress.”

New York Democrats on Tuesday called on Trump’s supporters to refrain from trying to intimidate the court and insisted that the former president would have a fair trial. 

“I believe that Donald Trump will have a fair trial that follows the facts and the law,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) wrote in a tweet. 

“There’s no place in our justice system for any outside influence or intimidation in the legal process. As the trial proceeds, protest is an American right, but all protests must be peaceful,” he added. 

Manhattan Rep. Jerry Nadler, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee and a former manager of Trump’s first impeachment trial, called the charges against the former president “methodical and well-reasoned” and said Trump will have “every opportunity to defend himself in court, like every other defendant in the New York judicial system.”

“In our justice system, defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty,” Nadler’s statement read. 

“In a desperate attempt to protect Mr. Trump, the most extreme House Republicans are already trying to bully the law enforcement officers involved. I do not know how this case will be decided, but I do know that DA Bragg will not be deterred or intimidated by the political stunts [Judiciary Committee Chairman] Jim Jordan and Kevin McCarthy throw at him,” he declared.