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The day after Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who campaigned for office on the ideology of „getting“ Donald Trump, released a 34-count indictment alleging business records violations that somehow tainted an election, a long list of experts and commenters were on the attack – against Bragg.
„If the New York bench retains any integrity, this case will be thrown out as legally improper with an admonition to Bragg and his office for politicizing the criminal justice process,“ warned constitutional expert Jonathan Turley.
„In a single indictment, Alvin Bragg bulldozed any high ground that the Democrats had after January 6th. He has fulfilled the narrative of the Trump campaign by supplying a raw and undeniable example of the politicization of the legal system.“
It was John Bolton, long a harsh critic of President Trump, who said he was „extraordinarily distressed“ by how weak the case is. „I think it’s easily subject to being dismissed or a quick acquittal for Trump,“ he charged.
Even John Bolton recognizes that this is a bogus case. Bolton just said he is „extraordinarily distressed“ by the indictment and it is „even weaker than I feared it would be and I think it’s easily subject to being dismissed or a quick acquittal for Trump.“ pic.twitter.com/zPEAaCjAhR
— MAGA War Room (@MAGAIncWarRoom) April 4, 2023
Harvard professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz told Just the News the indictment didn’t really include any crime.
„In his [Bragg’s] press conference, he mentions a couple of them, but they all relate to Stormy Daniels and other kinds of personal, sexual and other payoffs. That’s just not a crime. It’s just not a crime.“
Bragg staged a press conference shortly after Trump was arraigned to boast about his „years-long“ effort to create a case against Trump.
Trump pleaded not guilty to the 34 counts regarding his business records.
Dershowitz openly wondered, „Where’s the victim here? Who was hurt? Stormy Daniels isn’t the victim. Who is the victim here? And do you ever devote that much time and resources – a lawyer’s time to such a victimless crime?“
Commentator Paul Mauro at Fox News noted the „flaws“ in the case, including „the issue of selective prosecution; the escalation to a felony by use of a federal statute over which Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has no jurisdiction; the question of how a 2016 event comes within the statute of limitations on the purported charges.
