Gregg Jarrett: Trump's expected 'arrest': The politics and power plays behind these legally feeble charges
Mar 20, 2023 22:02:09 #
Jarrett is a lawyer whose two books, The Russia H**x: The Illicit Scheme to Clear Hillary Clinton and Frame Donald Trump and Witch Hunt: The Story of the Greatest Mass Delusion in American Political History are well worth reading as is his column below.
Trump's expected 'arrest': The politics and power plays behind these legally feeble charges
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/trump-expected-arrest-politics-power-plays-behind-legally-feeble-charges
Trump's expected 'arrest': The politics and power plays behind these legally feeble charges
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/trump-expected-arrest-politics-power-plays-behind-legally-feeble-charges
Mar 20, 2023 22:05:29 #
Gregg Jarrett: Trump's expected 'arrest': The politics and power plays behind these legally feeble charges
With word from former President Donald Trump that he will "be arrested" on a criminal indictment engineered by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg over alleged hush money payments made during the 2016 campaign, it is essential to examine what motivated the charges.
At its core, the case represents an egregious abuse of power and the corrupt weaponization of the law for political gain. Bereft of any credible evidence, Bragg is contorting the law in a brazen attempt to inflate his case. His actions constitute serious prosecutorial misconduct. It is the culmination of a years-long effort by the District Attorney’s Office to target Trump for something – anything.
It doesn’t seem to matter to the progressive DA that his case against the former president is the definition of flimsy and stale as month-old bread. Bragg is determined to hack off the mold and sell it as something fresh and new.
Forget about the statute of limitations that expired years ago. Or that his predecessor declined prosecution because the law does not support a criminal charge. Or that the feds who investigated the case determined that the evidence just wasn’t there. Never mind that Bragg’s legal theory is novel, if not bizarre. Or that his star witness, Michael Cohen, is a confessed liar who went to prison and whose name is synonymous with sleaze and dishonesty.
LEGAL EXPERT TORCHES MANHATTAN DA'S POTENTIAL TRUMP ARREST: ‘BANANA REPUBLIC SORT OF STUFF’
In a sensible world, all of that should matter. But it doesn’t because Trump is the Democrats’ eternal boogeyman. Since he’s running again for president, he has to be stopped – by hook or by crook.
So, Bragg exhumed a seven-year-old corpse of a case and appears to have snookered a grand jury into indicting the former president. The end justifies any malevolent means.....
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/trump-expected-arrest-politics-power-plays-behind-legally-feeble-charges
With word from former President Donald Trump that he will "be arrested" on a criminal indictment engineered by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg over alleged hush money payments made during the 2016 campaign, it is essential to examine what motivated the charges.
At its core, the case represents an egregious abuse of power and the corrupt weaponization of the law for political gain. Bereft of any credible evidence, Bragg is contorting the law in a brazen attempt to inflate his case. His actions constitute serious prosecutorial misconduct. It is the culmination of a years-long effort by the District Attorney’s Office to target Trump for something – anything.
It doesn’t seem to matter to the progressive DA that his case against the former president is the definition of flimsy and stale as month-old bread. Bragg is determined to hack off the mold and sell it as something fresh and new.
Forget about the statute of limitations that expired years ago. Or that his predecessor declined prosecution because the law does not support a criminal charge. Or that the feds who investigated the case determined that the evidence just wasn’t there. Never mind that Bragg’s legal theory is novel, if not bizarre. Or that his star witness, Michael Cohen, is a confessed liar who went to prison and whose name is synonymous with sleaze and dishonesty.
LEGAL EXPERT TORCHES MANHATTAN DA'S POTENTIAL TRUMP ARREST: ‘BANANA REPUBLIC SORT OF STUFF’
In a sensible world, all of that should matter. But it doesn’t because Trump is the Democrats’ eternal boogeyman. Since he’s running again for president, he has to be stopped – by hook or by crook.
So, Bragg exhumed a seven-year-old corpse of a case and appears to have snookered a grand jury into indicting the former president. The end justifies any malevolent means.....
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/trump-expected-arrest-politics-power-plays-behind-legally-feeble-charges
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