Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg was the Democrat prosecutor who kicked off the lawfare against Donald Trump.
Bragg just got his comeuppance.
And Alvin Bragg is staring down the barrel of this ultimate humiliation.
Lawfare ends in defeat
Donald Trump’s landslide win over Kamala Harris not only validated Trump’s MAGA agenda and provided a national repudiation of the Left’s woke socialist agenda, it also drove a stake through the heart of the lawfare against Donald Trump.
Judge Juan Merchan had set a sentencing hearing of November 26 in the sham falsification of business records case.
A rigged jury in heavily Democrat New York basically followed Merchan’s instructions and convicted Trump for fake crimes in what amounted to a political show trial the likes of which were only seen before in Stalin’s Russia.
Merchan was going to throw the book at Trump and sentence him to jail as the entire American Left wanted a cathartic moment to see Trump punished for winning the 2016 election.
But now Donald Trump is the President-elect who just won a national mandate with a popular vote and Electoral College vote mandate.
And that means the idea of Merchan jailing the President-elect between Thanksgiving and his inauguration is a preposterous scenario.
Judge Merchan can throw out conviction against Trump
CNN legal affairs correspondent Paul Reid – a major Trump-hater – told host Jake Tapper that Merchan was preparing to give himself an off ramp out of this mess.
Trump’s legal team was going to fight any attempt to jail Trump.
But now they can walk into Merchan’s courtroom and argue that the logistics – as well as the historical and Constitutional precedent – of jailing a President-elect are untenable.
“I’m told that his legal team is going to try to make sure that sentencing never happens. As we know, their usual strategy is always to just try to get things delayed. But here they’re going to argue to the judge that the sentencing should never happen because now that Trump is president-elect, they will say that he is entitled to the same constitutional protections as a sitting president and should be protected from state actors and in this case, state prosecutors and the judge overseeing that case, Judge Juan Merchan,” Reid began.
And Merchan is listening.
Merchan set a hearing for November 12 to throw out the conviction against Donald Trump based on the Supreme Court immunity ruling.
“He’s giving himself a deadline of November 12th to decide if the conviction against Trump should be tossed based on the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on immunity. If he tosses the conviction, there’ll be no sentencing. But if that sentencing continues to go forward, this is the argument that the Trump team is going to make,” Reid concluded.
The immunity ruling held that prosecutors can’t use official acts – such as conversations with White House staffers – as evidence in a prosecution of a former President.
Bragg violated this when he called former White House aide Hope Hicks to testify about her conversations with President Trump about Michael Cohen and the Stormy Daniels allegations.
Judge Merchan has the legal precedent in hand to end this nonsense persecution of Trump.
And Americans are hoping good sense prevails.
