During his campaign for Manhattan District Attorney, Alvin Bragg made it clear that one of his focuses, if elected, would be on finding something -- anything -- on Donald Trump and his family:
While campaigning, Bragg said: "I have investigated Trump and his children and held them accountable for their misconduct with the Trump Foundation. I also sued the Trump administration more than 100 times for the travel ban, the separation of children from their families at the border. So I know that work. I know how to follow the facts and hold people in power accountable."
He also said that he would continue with Vance's investigation and hold Trump "accountable by following the facts where they go."
Bragg continued to make frequent reference to his legal experience with the Trump family throughout the campaign.
Bragg won that election, and here's where the "facts" went:
The charges against Trump are obscure, and nearly entirely unprecedented. In fact, no state prosecutor — in New York, or Wyoming, or anywhere — has ever charged federal election laws as a direct or predicate state crime, against anyone, for anything. None. Ever.
Add all that up, and here's how Politico has framed their profile on Bragg:
This reluctant prosecutor just made Donald Trump a felon https://t.co/sSSguHBaj7
— POLITICO (@politico) June 1, 2024
I'm glad I wasn't drinking anything when I read that!
"Reluctant?" Bragg's entire campaign was based on how he was going to get Trump. https://t.co/QqspBrlojV
— Angus T. Kirk (@angusparvo) June 1, 2024
Didn't he run for office explicitly on a promise to prosecute Donald Trump?
— Coffee and Chocolate Games (@RealCoffeeChoco) June 1, 2024
Yes. And so did New York Attorney General Letitia James.
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Bragg's office had an entire team of people furiously searching legal statutes for months in an attempt to find *any* predicate to prosecute Donald Trump, no matter how stupid.
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) June 1, 2024
They settled on one that required a never-before-tried legal theory.
But he was "reluctant"...lol. https://t.co/b9oRwFFwB4
The media is beyond redemption.
“Reluctant”
— Grateful Calvin (@shoveitjack) June 1, 2024
You will never hate the media enough. Never. https://t.co/lzJVHiDtvw
Politico seems to be ready to help run Bragg's Senate campaign or something:
It’s easily one of the most dazzling feats of jurisprudence the nation has seen — and the sort of accomplishment that could launch him on a political rocket ship to Washington. Indeed, the conviction Thursday drew immediate praise and gratitude from Democrats, who see the former president as a unique threat to democracy — while also intensifying attacks from his supporters and the freshly convicted candidate himself, who has called the case a “witch hunt” and a “sham trial” organized by President Joe Biden.
Yet there were no Champagne baths in Bragg’s office after the verdict. When the jury’s decision was announced in Manhattan Criminal Court, Bragg stuck to the apolitical tone he has adopted throughout the prosecution. In public, he described the case as standard practice. In private, he acknowledged to his staff the enormity of what they’d taken on — and said it was time to get back to business as usual.
Bringing sham charges against Biden's Republican opponent and trying the case in front of a jury picked from an area where more than 75 percent of the people voted for the Democrat candidate in 2020 also helps make that a "dazzling feat of jurisprudence."
This is up there with WAPOs "austere religious scholar" headline for Al-Baghdadi's obituary https://t.co/VPNSFKHveE
— Sam Rogers (@RealSamRogers) June 1, 2024
They keep outdoing each other and it's become clear there is no bottom for modern "journalism."
