Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has raised over $800,000 since indicting former President Donald Trump over the payments that his 2016 presidential campaign made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels ahead of the election.State campaign finance data shows that Bragg has raked in $845,253 between March 30, 2023, and the latest reporting date, January 12, 2024. Donations from New York State accounted for an overwhelming majority, 72 percent, of the over 800 contributions he received over...
The new indictments in Arizona against several of former President Donald Trump's allies is not just bad news for them, but a significant opportunity for special counsel Jack Smith in his prosecution of former President Donald Trump for the 2020 election plot, former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann said on MSNBC Wednesday.The newly dropped indictment names a number of Republican officials and Trump strategists in an alleged criminal scheme to stop the electoral count in Arizona, including...
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.
Donald Trump sat in court Monday as jury selection began in his criminal hush money trial, which Mark Levin believes is legally frail and should have been “dismissed immediately.” The former president is the first in U.S. history to go on trial for criminal charges, and is facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in order to influence the 2016 election. Levin calls this case a “non-disclosure agreement case.” But that doesn’t matter to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin...
The New York prosecutor has made history as the first person to ever bring charges against a former president, Alex Woodward reports
The Supreme Court foreshadowed a long slog for Trump’s D.C. case, while his Florida charges have similarly stalled.
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...
Donald Trump’s pretrial screeds against Alvin Bragg were filled with coded language that makes clear that this trial isn't just about the question of the former president's culpability. Trump, who’s accused Manhattan’s first Black district attorney of being “racist” against him, has called Bragg “lazy” and repeated false claims that he has refused to prosecute violent crime. Both of these insults — alleged laziness and indifference to violence — have commonly been deployed by racists throughout...
Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, Donald Trump's prosecutor in hush money case, bio shows he has already won tax-fraud Trump Organization convictions
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...