A grip of Democrat prosecutors have jumped at the chance to wage lawfare against Donald Trump but Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg was first.
Bragg may have thought his plan to convict the former President would be a walk in the park but he’s finding out that the opposite is true.
And Donald Trump and his attorneys just hit Bragg with some bad news.
Bragg, a Manhattan Democrat, indicted former President Donald Trump on the claim that he’d falsified his business records to cover up a $130,000 hush money payment his former attorney Michael Cohen allegedly paid to porn star Stormy Daniels to keep an affair under wraps.
The Manhattan Democrat District Attorney claimed that such a payment was somehow a campaign finance violation since the former President was running for office, even though the payment was made with Trump’s personal money – federal campaign finance laws allow candidates to spend their personal money however they see fit.
In fact, even the Biden Department of Justice – which has jurisdiction over federal campaign finance violations – even passed on bringing such charges against Trump because it was obviously a losing case.
So essentially, Bragg is charging Trump for a totally made-up “crime” he doesn’t even have jurisdiction over.
And to make matters worse, even if the “crime” wasn’t totally fabricated, and even if Bragg had jurisdiction, the statute of limitations on such an offense as falsifying business records – which is supposed to be a misdemeanor – has long since passed.
Nevertheless, Bragg was set to be the first Democrat prosecutor to bring Trump to trial for one of the many witch hunts against him on March 25.
But with the Supreme Court agreeing to hear Trump’s appeal on his claims of Presidential immunity in the January 6 case Biden Special Counsel Jack Smith brought against him, Trump’s attorneys have now filed a motion to delay the trial in Bragg’s case until the Court renders a verdict.
“President Trump respectfully submits that an adjournment of the trial is appropriate to await further guidance from the Supreme Court, which should facilitate the appropriate application of the presidential immunity doctrine in this case to the evidence the People intend to offer at trial,” Trump’s attorneys wrote.
While the Democrat prosecutors have rushed their witch hunts against the former President to trial – federal cases typically take at least a year and a half to go to trial, but Trump’s cases have been expedited in just a matter of months – the Trump legal team is clearly simply in delay mode.
Democrats’ obviously hope that by rushing the cases and putting Trump on trial prior to November’s General Election, they can use the trials to interfere in the election and tip the scales in Biden’s favor.
For example, Obama-appointed Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is presiding over Smith’s aforementioned January 6 case, rushed the case to trial just seven months after Trump was indicted in an attempt to setup a trial schedule that would allow for an all-Democrat jury to hand down a “guilty” verdict as the ultimate October surprise.
That’s forced Trump’s legal team to take up the opposite strategy, filing motions such as this in an attempt to delay the trials until after the election.
But only time will tell if they will ultimately succeed in postponing the trials until after November’s General Election.
Political Animal News will keep you up-to-date on any new developments in this ongoing story.