District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case against Donald Trump was always weak if not meritless. But that didn’t stop him from pursuing a felony case for a low-level misdemeanor that normally would have resulted in a fine that was also past the statute of limitations.
Alvin Bragg Has His Trump Trial, All He Needs Now Is A Crime Authored by Jonathan Turley, Below is an expanded version of my column in the New York Post on the start of the Trump trial and much awaited explanation of District Attorney Alvin Bragg on the underlying alleged criminal conduct. The curious aspect of the case is that the prosecutors are stressing that they will prove largely uncontested facts. Indeed, if all of these facts of payments, non-disclosure agreements, and...
We’ve never seen a case like this one where a dead misdemeanor from 2016 could be revived as a felony just before the 2024 election
Alvin Bragg is to be commended for getting to trial on the Trump hush-payments case.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's evidence against former President Donald Trump in his criminal hush money trial is "truly insane," according to legal analyst Jonathan Turley on Saturday.Trump, the presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee, became the first former president in U.S. history to stand trial in a criminal case earlier this month. Following an investigation by Bragg's office, Trump was indicted in March 2023 on charges of falsifying business records relating to hush...
Fox News host Laura Ingraham says media personalities are getting "nervous" as Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's case against former President Trump isn't turning out "exactly as they hoped" Friday on "The Ingraham Angle." TRUMP SUGGESTS WHITE HOUSE AS VENUE FOR DEBATE WITH BIDEN: 'WOULD BE VERY COMFORTABLE' LAURA INGRAHAM: Dead dogs can't bark. But from day one of this ludicrous case against Trump, the Manhattan D.A. has been pounding on the canine corpse, trying desperately to...
Fox News host Laura Ingraham breaks down jury selection in the Trump New York hush money case on "The Ingraham Angle," saying the prosecution seems "intent on inflicting harm" against the former president. LAURA INGRAHAM: Together, the names Bragg & Merchan sound like a slip-and-fall firm. You know, the kind that lives off filing personal injury claims, workers' comp cases against alleged wrongdoers, but what we're learning today shows us that Bragg and Merchan should be the ones on the...
As the Supreme Court’s most renowned originalist-textualist member, Justice Clarence Thomas has a chance in the case of Trump v. United States to definitively refute the liberal media’s claim that the court is just another realm of tawdry politics. The unfair media narrative is that at least five of the six Republican appointees on the […]
In a rare moment of expressed camaraderie, former President Donald Trump Monday commiserated with the Manhattan prosecutor leading his criminal hush money case.Trump took to Truth Social Monday night to draw a comparison between himself and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who charged the former president with 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up salacious stories than might have derailed his 2016 campaign. "Wow, D.A. Alvin Bragg is an Election Denier, the exact same...
Jed Handelsman Shugerman, a law professor at Boston University, thinks Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's prosecution of Donald Trump is a "historic mistake."Shugerman made that conclusion after witnessing opening arguments on Monday in which prosecutors alleged Trump "orchestrated a criminal scheme to corrupt the 2016 presidential election." In short, prosecutors claim Trump falsified business records to interfere in the 2016 election.The problems with their thesis, Shugerman wrote in...
"Real Time" host Bill Maher completely reversed his attitude toward the New York trial against former President Trump and predicted that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg will be a "rising star" in Democrat politics if he gets a conviction. "This one, I got to say I was always against [it] because I thought of all the ones you're bringing, this is the least serious. Now I think Trump could lose," Maher began the panel discussion Friday night. "I'm turning on this one because it's not...
The President's campaign team timed and styled the post to take advantage of the huge interest in the NFL draft - but they made one crucial and very simple error.