Alvin Bragg knew he was gearing up for the battle of his life with Donald Trump.
But Donald Trump came out of the gate swinging.
And it became clear Alvin Bragg picked the wrong fight with Donald Trump with this legal war.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg won an early skirmish in his show trial against Donald Trump.
Judge Juan Merchan – a Democrat and Joe Biden campaign donor – ordered an April 15 trial date for Donald Trump.
This means Bragg is likely to be the only Democrat prosecutor who gets Trump inside a courtroom before the election.
Bragg’s case is a laughable farce where he took what former Manhattan District Attorney’s Office prosecutor Mark Pomerantz called the “zombie case” – named so because it hung around the office for five years – and turned a misdemeanor falsification of business records charge into a felony by claiming Trump listed $130,000 in payments to Michael Cohen as legal services when they were supposedly to reimburse Cohen for paying Stormy Daniels a nondisclosure agreement settlement in October 2016.
Falsification of business records is a misdemeanor with a two-year statute of limitations – meaning Bragg missed his chance for charges – unless done to cover up another crime.
In this case, Bragg fabricated a federal campaign finance violation that Joe Biden’s Justice Department and the Federal Election Commission never charged Trump with.
Trump responded to the trial date announcement by obliterating Judge Merchan’s blatantly political attempt to interfere in the election.
“I don’t know how you can have a trial like this in the middle of a presidential election…again, these are all Biden trials…they take a guy out of the DOJ and they put him into the attorney general’s office and then into the Manhattan DA’s office to go after Trump,” Trump declared.
Trump explained that Bragg could have indicted Trump at any time on these charges in 2021 as his predecessor spent years investigating them.
But Bragg came up empty on his financial fraud investigation and needed some crime to charge Trump with.
And Bragg waited until after Trump announced he was running for president to bring forward this sham, partisan indictment.
But Trump also had some words of warning for Bragg.
In April, when Bragg first indicted Trump, Trump’s poll numbers went up.
And Trump predicted his numbers may rise again if the Democrat people see a Democrat judge and prosecutor putting the Republican nominee for president on trial in a kangaroo court that would make a proceeding in Joseph Stalin’s Russia seem fair.
“Well, it could also make me more popular because the people know it’s a scam,” Trump told reporters.
Reporter: Are you worried a conviction could cost you the election?
— Pod Save America (@PodSaveAmerica) March 25, 2024
Trump: "Well, it could also make me more popular" pic.twitter.com/XMP2WDUdjq
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