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Mid-Wit DA Alvin Bragg Is Tormenting Trump with Phony Prosecution

Readers have been so bombarded with news about Donald Trump’s legal problems, it’s not surprising that many find it hard to keep it all straight. That’s assuming one is still paying attention. No one could be blamed for shutting it all out because of the ridiculousness and unfairness of the claims. There’s the “January 6^th” case involving Federal criminal charges pending in the District Court in Washington DC. There’s the “classified documents” case in Palm Beach, Florida arising from the raid on Mar-a-Lago and involving criminal charges related to the handling of certain Top-Secret documents. There’s the election interference conspiracy case involving state law criminal RICO charges in Fulton County, Georgia. And finally, there’s the Stormy Daniels hush money case involving state law record-keeping criminal charges in New York. (We can leave aside the civil lawsuit in New York brought by State Attorney General Letitia James, which has already resulted in a $550 million judgment against Trump; that’s on appeal). Of the criminal cases, three can be summarized quickly. The January 6^th case is on hold while the Supreme Court considers appeals related to presidential immunity for official acts. That issue will not be decided until late June. As a result, a trial will probably not conclude before the election. The classified documents case is on hold, pending a decision under the Presidential Records Act that may say that Trump was entitled to hold the documents in question. The Georgia case is bogged down in claims of ethics violations, conflicts of interest, and prosecutorial misconduct that have delayed proceedings indefinitely. That case is also unlikely to be concluded before the election. That leaves only the New York hush money case, the weakest and most absurd of all. In brief, the case involves an alleged misdemeanor on which the statute of limitations has already expired done in conjunction with another alleged misdemeanor on which the statute of limitations has also expired, both as part of an alleged election interference conspiracy that other courts have already said is not a crime at all. Got that? Just to show the absurdity of this case, the bookkeeping violation supposedly involving election interference took place after the election was over. Even liberal legal scholars don’t understand the allegations and can’t find a crime in this mess of claims. Distinguished legal scholar Jonathan Turley said this trial “is increasingly looking like a mad prosecution machine by lawyers who don’t take the law too seriously.” Still, depending on the jury, this may be the one case that nails Trump with a criminal conviction before the election. Whether that helps or hurts his election chances remains to be seen. We’ll know in early June.