NEW YORK — Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, went into former President Donald Trump’s hush-money trial besieged by death threats from extremists, reproval from political commentators for creating a national distraction (“Save the mug shots for Georgia, the handcuffs for Jan. 6,” wrote Peggy Noonan in The Wall Street Journal) and criticism from legal […]
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Trump conviction vindicates prosecutor Alvin Bragg’s bet
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Just over a year after taking office as Manhattan District Attorney, Alvin Bragg took a career-defining gamble: charging a former U.S. president with crimes using an untested legal theory. The roll of the dice paid off on Thursday, when a jury found Donald Trump guilty on all 34 […]
Trump hush money trial to shape prosecutor Alvin Bragg’s legacy
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Alvin Bragg says he decided to become a lawyer after guns were pulled on him six times while growing up in New York – three of those times by police. A quarter-century after graduating from Harvard Law School, the Manhattan district attorney’s legacy is set to be defined […]
The ‘Heart’ of Alvin Bragg’s Case Against Trump Is Misdirection
Porn star Stormy Daniels says she had sex with Donald Trump at a Lake Tahoe hotel in July 2006. To keep her from telling that story, former Trump fixer Michael Cohen says, “the boss” instructed him to pay Daniels $130,000 shortly before the 2016 presidential election. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg says that nondisclosure agreement […]
Trump’s legal team returns to court after Bragg’s own witness implodes case and more top headlines
FOURTH WEEK OF TRIAL – NY v. Trump to resume Monday after an eventful third week of testimony, and thousands of dollars of gag order fines. Continue reading … BANK ROLLED – News outlet mocked for being surprised about who is funding anti-Israel protests. Continue reading … DEADLY DESTINATION – Mexican authorities reveal reason they […]
Underestimating Alvin Bragg’s case against Donald Trump is a historic mistake
Prosecutors are off to a strong start in the Manhattan trial of Donald Trump. Their evidence is aimed at proving that the former president committed crimes by falsifying business records to cover up a pre-election payoff in 2016 meant to keep women who would have otherwise revealed some of his sexual scandals ahead of that […]