Indicted by 49-year-old Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, 76-year-old former President Donald Trump, the first declared 2024 Presidential candidate, called the latest legal effort another “witch hunt,” referring to the many fake investigation by the Department of Justice and FBI during his presidency. Why would Trump think anything different about Bragg’s latest charges on some 30 counts of financial fraud related to Trump 2016 campaign when he apparently paid off former adult film star Story Daniels AKA Susan Clifford before the 2016 Election. Braggs’s star witness, Trump’s former personal attorney, now disbarred, Michael Cohen, works day-and-night to get revenge after his multiple convictions in 2018 for income tax evasion, illegally selling NYC taxi medallions and violating federal campaign finance laws and paying hush money to an alleged former mistress of Trump.
Whatever Cohen pled guilty to and spent three years in prison, it’s a false narrative that Cohen was sentenced for his payment to Stormy Daniels. If that’s all Cohen pled guilty to, he would have gotten probation, most likely wouldn’t have lost his law license. No one in the Democrat-controlled fake news wants to admit, Cohen’s primary felonies for his three-year prison sentence were for income tax evasion, wire and bank fraud and illegally selling NYC taxi tokens. So, when the press speaks only about Cohen violating campaign finance laws, it’s pure fake news. Bragg danced with the devil embracing Trump’s vindictive former attorney, willing to say-and-do anything to get back at Trump. So, when the media only talks about the payout of $130,000 to Stormy Daniels, it’s the least of Cohen’s crimes. Bragg’s predecessor, Cyrus Vance Jr., decided not to charge Trump.
Bragg thinks because he successfully prosecuted Trump’s 75-year-old long time CEO Alan Weisselberg Jan. 10, 2023, he’s going to have the same luck with Trump. Bragg got Weisselberg to plea bargain a few petty charges for tax evasion for some fringe benefits he received over his, netting Weisselberg five months in Rikers Island correctional facility. However Bragg got Weisselberg to plead guilty to tax evasion, Weosselberg would have gotten no time had he implicated Trump for whom he worked for nearly 50 years. Going after Weisselberg was low hanging fruit for Bragg, that tried, but failed, to get Weisselberg to testify against Trump. Members of the GOP-led House Judiciary Committee, led by Rep. Jim Jorday (R-Ohio), want to subpoena all of Bragg’s email, text message and phone records related to his investigation and prosecution of Trump.
Bragg’s predecessor, Cyrus Vamce Jr., decided not to charge Trump before he retired Dec. 31, 2021, citing that lead prosecutor Mark Pomerantz didn’t have sufficient evidence to proceed. Pomerantz resigned from his post in the DA’s office in February 2022, disagreeing with Vance’s decision. “I bring cases when they are ready,” Bragg said after Pomerantz resignation. “Mark Pomerantz’s case simply was not ready. So I said to my team, let’s keep working,” Bragg said, moving the case where it is now, ready to charge the former president. Like 62-year-old former FBI Director James Comey, Bragg thinks he’s got all the best evidence against Trump now that he’d got Cohen singing like a canary. Comey was all pumped up investigating Trump with former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s fake Steele dossier. Bragg has convicted felon Cohen as his star witness.
Democrats and the press fully embrace Cohen, appearing almost nightly on CNN and MSNBC, or any other liberal outlets ready to denounce Trump. If it sounds like disbarred media darling former attorney Michael Avenattti, currently doing time in federal prison, you’re right. Liberal news outlets don’t care about fidelity to responsible journalism, they just want to advance political agenda. Indicting Trump helps 80-year-old President Joe Biden’s chances in 2024, the only thing Democrats or their media friends care about. “For the DA’s office to charge former President Trump, a victim of extortion, with a crime because his own lawyer, Michael Cohen, as convicted liar, paid the extortionisht would be unprecedented and outrageous selective prosecution,” said Trump lawyer Susan Necheles, hinting at Trump’s defense strategy should Bragg’s case go to trial.
Bragg’s office has made its bed and must live with its star witness and case against former President Donald Trump. “Braggs’s decision not to pull the trigger in February 2022 . . . actually may have been courageous, not cowardly,” said Andrew Weissman in a review of Pomerantiz book in the Washington Post. Weissman should bite his tongue after serving as lead prosecutor in Robert Mueller’s 22-month, $40 million fiasco. Mueller acquitted Trump March 23, 2019, after the CIA and FBI spent years investigating Trump for his bogus ties to the Kremlin. Weissman told the media on many occasions that they had solid evidence against Trump, all turning out to be false. “He hardly had anything to gain and a lot to lose politically by the decision,” Weissman said. Bragg thinks Michael Cohen leads to a Trump conviction. He should ask Weissman what happened in the Mueller probe.
About the Author
John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
