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| DA ALVIN BRAGG is AFTER TRUMP & IT SURE LOOKS POLITICAL ? OR A COMEDY OF ERRORS !!! |
Bragg is a local DA not a US Attorney. He is NOT SO BIG . You ALL should guess that something fishy is going on . Trump's court case is scheduled as far as crazy as it sounds in December 2023 , a wee bit close to the Republican National Primaries next year . Bragg's sudden announcement to prosecute Trump is a stunt . It will make HISTORY . BUT it will be a total PUBLIC embarrassment on the Democratic Party. THERE IS A BRAGG ABOUT TRUMP. WE need to talk about it. Last year, Bragg saw his own plummeting numbers and had a conversation with Hochul about her possibly firing him if (1)>>his soft prosecution of crime in NYC continued.Then, he realized that prosecuting Trump would deflect from all of that in a place like NYC, so he went for it. Now, we get the weird porn star payoff case leading the way instead of the much more substantive and important case in Georgia.Just a reminder - it’s possible to loathe Trump while also seeing (1.2)>>Bragg as a terrible DA and total clown.The threat of it led to some course correction by Bragg last year, when he issued a “clarifying” memo about his original memo about his approach.Beyond that, (2)>>Hochul went into the meeting repeatedly telling the press that she was fully aware of her powers.Finally, the chance was not zero. We don’t have voter recall here, so it’s the only way to remove someone doing a terrible job without waiting for an election. It’s zero now thanks to Bragg insulating himself by bringing the porn star hush money case. Though we have yet to see if this insulates him in the next election. Here’s hoping he gets hit with a rough primary. (3)>>NOW but this is clearly 100% politically motivated. I can't see any other reason for this other than Bragg wanting to become a national household name. He's the guy that produced a Trump mugshot. Meanwhile, criminals with multi-page rap sheets get charges minimized or dropped, making Manhattan less safe.Bragg is a total POS who’s doing this only for himself. Most people, even many democrats, see this case as a nothing-burger, a pure persecution with no substance. Trump again is getting all the free press, his base again got all riled up. This is not gonna end well.The point is prioritization and fairness. (4)>>Democrat voters probably want to see election interference lawsuit in Georgia more than some porn star hush money case. Also, Hunter Biden is still not prosecuted for what he did, Pelosi is still the stock god of congress and not a word of potential insider trading charges. At one point we the people need to hold the powerful accountable, even if they are in your camp. If you are somebody who supports Liz Cheney’s decision to turn on her fellow republicans for “justice” then you are supposed to support holding top democrats accountable as well. So far, the left has been silenced though which in a way speaks volume. For at least 8 years, we have been hearing, Trump may have violated... Trump could be in trouble..." All the while, Trump said, "I could shoot someone on 5th avenue, and no one would care." And he's been right.This is the first time Trump is having to face the music. Maybe Bragg will prevail and maybe he won't, but that will take time to play out. In the meantime, the first case makes it easier for the second, which makes it easier for the third. By the time we get to the fourth. (5)>>My issue with Bragg bringing this case is that I’m concerned he won’t win and that will strengthen Trump in the end. Will make Trump look like the man who overcame the woke assholes, and garner presidential votes. I mean, If Trump was broke and really needed to pay off Stormy with campaign funds, maybe Bragg’s got a case. But Trump was a fuckin billionaire to begin with…and didn’t even write the check. I fear that a jury’s not gonna believe that he really cares which bank account the payoff came out of. And the conclusion will be that he just got mixed up in an accident that leftists couldn’t help but try and capitalize on. I think people on the right were kinda getting over Trump, but victim complexes are addictive. If Trump isn’t convicted, I think he becomes a far stronger presidential candidate. What concerns me is that a year ago Bragg was openly admitting that he wasn’t a skilled politician and this year he’s leading one of highest profile cases in American history.
NOTES AND COMMENTS:
(1)>>his soft prosecution of crime in NYC continued.This is why NYC is trash. This DA won't prosecute a murderer. But this?? And you all forgot about Bill Clinton paying off Paula Jones, and Hilary raiding Haiti aid money, and Bill Deblasio's wife stealing/losing $850 million, and Al Sharpton being an IRS tax cheat, and...The numbers don’t lie: Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s case against Trump is a massive outlier, not the “bread and butter” move the crime-lover claimed it was.Turns out, his office almost never prosecutes cases on charges like the ones he’s mounted against the ex-prez — i.e., first-degree falsifying business records with the “intent to commit another crime or to aid or conceal the commission thereof.”State crime data crunched by the Times-Union show that Bragg’s office has gone after people for this as a top charge only eight times in the past few years.Statewide, there have been fewer than 300 such cases since 2019.This alone debunks Bragg’s claim that the Trump case represents just another day in the office.And the actual results of such charges are completely laughable. (1.2)>>Bragg as a terrible DA and total clown. So Mr. Bragg may indict a former President for the first time in American history based on the weakest of charges. He would subject the country to a trial that would be a media circus for the ages. And he would do so running the risk that a single juror could block a guilty verdict and validate Mr. Trump’s claim that this is a political prosecution.Yes, we know, in America no one is above the law. But prosecutors use their discretion every day not to bring charges for any number of reasons. Mr. Bragg came into office vowing not to charge numerous non-violent crimes against public order.In February 2022, Bragg walked back a little on his policies, sending out a memo that made it clear to all his staff that any crime involving a firearm would be prosecuted as a felony — reversing the stance he had taken just a month before. Although crime is currently at the same rate as the same time last year, felony assault continues be heightened at 8.5 percent. Despite murder and robbery being down, 84 homicides and more than 3,500 robberies have occurred this year in the Big Apple. As Bragg's office focused on indicting Trump, these career criminals ran the streets of New York, repeatedly terrorizing citizens and wreaking havoc. But he’s yet to acknowledge that this situation in large part his fault. His policies — starting with those in his Day 1 memo, which outlines the sentences he won’t seek and the charges he’ll downgrade, and which is still largely in force — played a big role in getting us here, by making it easier for even repeat crooks to get back on the streets quickly and by signaling to cops and law-abiding citizens that massive amounts of public unsafety would be tolerated. (2)>>Hochul went into the meeting repeatedly telling the press that she was fully aware of her powers. Governor Kathy Hochul under the NYS Constitution may remove "any district attorney who shall fail faithfully to prosecute a person charged with the violation in his or her county of any provision of this article which may come to his or her knowledge" and Alvin Bragg has knowingly failed time and time again. Here are only a few examples:Mary Saunders: was caught on video participating in the murder of US Veteran, Sgt. Hason Correa. Alvin Bragg refused to prosecute on the original charges and granted a plea bargain on minor assault charges allowing her to be free after time served of only 14 months (Ironically part of the reason the DA's office gave the plea deal is due to certain self defense claims)Alvin Bragg's failure to request a warrant to confiscate a gun used in an armed robbery by repeat offender Tyrell Rodgers resulted in a man being shot and killed on March 8. Hochul has stopped short of demanding Bragg's removal from office, but added that she will 'be monitoring the situation very closely' to the New York Post she told. (3)>>NOW but this is clearly 100% politically motivated. Bragg is engaged in bare-naked politics. The case is not merely unworthy as a prosecution of Trump (which is why federal prosecutors walked away from it years ago, as did Bragg before he was pressured by progressive Democrats into reviving it); it is also a case that everyone knows Bragg would never bring against anyone other than Trump. Crime is rampant in New York, in part because Bragg’s default position is leniency and often non-prosecution when it comes to hardened criminals. He is ultimately the one who is going to take the fall for this bogus prosecution. However the Dems are loving it because at worst it sidelines and distracts Trump, and at best it possibly strengthens his support as nominee. They really wanted Trump to act out today at the arraignment or for one of his supporters to do something stupid, but they didn’t get either. Giant fail all the way around.(4)>>Democrat voters probably want to see election interference lawsuit in Georgia more. President Donald Trump's attorneys filed a motion seeking to essentially shut down prosecutors' ability to issue indictments based on a special purpose grand jury investigation into the failed attempt to overturn Georgia's 2020 election.In a 51-page filing that includes more than 430 pages of exhibits, Trump's lawyers want a judge to quash the SPGJ's final report — which is already partially public — and expunge it from the record, prevent any prosecuting body from using evidence gathered by the jury investigation and to find that the Fulton County district attorney's office be disqualified from investigating or prosecuting cases based on the jury's work.The request in Georgia comes a day before Trump declared (without evidence) over the weekend he would be arrested in relation to a longstanding investigation in New York into allegations of hush money payments to an adult film star . (4.1)than some porn star hush money case. THE IDEA that Trump paid off Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about an affair they had, the payments went through Michael Cohen, who was then an attorney for Trump. They're investigating whether the payment Trump made to Cohen to reimburse him was done legally.Specifically the question of legality is if it was an undeclared campaign expenditure. It isn't clear yet if he used campaign funds or personal funds that the grand jury is deciding should have been declared as campaign funds.They are trying to take a misdemeanor in New York where the statute of limitations has run out, where the previous DA refused to bring charges because the case was so flimsy, and then tie it to a federal crime due to campaign finance violation. Then you somehow have to try and reconcile this with a letter from Michael Cohen's lawyer saying Michael Cohen paid the money himself and was never reimbursed and Stormy Daniels writing the affair never happened in the first place. (5)>>My issue with Bragg bringing this case is that I’m concerned he won’t win and that will strengthen Trump in the end.I am skeptical that a charge about a years-old event that everybody has already known about for years is likely to have much impact on anything, other than it will probably rally Republicans and supporters of Trump around him, at least in the short term The post-arraignment hangover was fueled by burning questions about the prosecution’s legal theories that Bragg has, for now, left largely unanswered. The concerns were exacerbated by the noticeable absence of support — and in some cases pointed skepticism about the case — from many of Trump’s critics in the legal community and Congress. But while his campaign claims it has raked in more than $8 million in recent days, it’s not clear the former president will benefit in the long run.This is an organized taking down of a political opponent. This is Biden’s guy who is in with Bragg, helping him and colluding take down their political opponent. Never before in US history has this happened. All of them will be in orange suits in the end.I'm indifferent to if he's guilty or acquitted, but if Trump is acquitted or pays only misdemeanor fees for all this "guilt" - DA Bragg would be helping Trump's bid for POTUS in '24.
