On Monday, April 15, President Donald Trump will become the first former president and the first major presidential candidate in American history to face a criminal trial. Not only is this unprecedented, it's happening with one of the weakest criminal cases in recent memory.
The Manhattan District Attorney’s office searched for any way to charge the former president since 2017. The investigation poured over President Trump's personal and business life, and they settled on charging the former president with 34 felonies for the non-felony of his attorney Michael Cohen settling a nuisance claim.
The case is so weak that The New York Times and The Washington Post both acknowledged that it’s a stretch. The New York Times reported: "The case against the former president hinges on an untested and therefore risky legal theory involving a complex interplay of laws."
Meanwhile, The Washington Post wrote that the prosecution left some “legal experts . . . scratching their heads” as “they describe it as an unusual case.”
Indeed, it is unusual.
Soros-funded Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg says that President Trump “repeatedly and fraudulently falsified New York business records to conceal crimes that hid damaging information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election.”
Bragg’s indictment, however, shows that this is a false accusation from the DA.
The 34 counts of "falsifying business records" all allegedly occurred in 2017, well after the presidential election and when President Trump was already in office.
So, how exactly then did President Trump attempt to hide from everyone “damaging information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election”?
A district attorney lying about the central facts of his case should be a scandal. It’s worth taking a look at the prosecutors who helped assemble this absurd case for Bragg. One of them is Mark Pomerantz, who didn’t hide that the prosecution of Trump was a personal crusade of his. Pomerantz wrote in his 2023 tell-all that Trump “disgusted” him and compared prosecuting Trump to Osama bin Laden. Pomerantz was so excited to prosecute Trump that he joined the DA’s office for no pay, and he wrote that he “would have paid the District Attorney's Office for the opportunity to prosecute President Trump."
It’s important to note as well that the prior Manhattan District Attorney (Cy Vance), the Manhattan U.S. Attorney, the Federal Election Commission, and Bragg himself examined Michael Cohen’s alleged payment to Stormy Daniels and declined to prosecute.
Then senior Biden Justice Department political appointee Matthew Colangelo got deployed to Bragg’s office as a “senior counsel” to work on the case months before the indictment. Colangelo is a lifelong Democrat activist who was a senior political appointee for both the Obama and Biden administrations. He was the number three at the Biden DOJ, a senior economic adviser in the Obama White House, and a top aide to Obama Labor Secretary and DNC chairman Tom Perez. Colangelo has never served as a line prosecutor or defense attorney. Colangelo is simply a senior Democrat operative, deployed to Bragg’s office to get Trump.
Alvin Bragg is not trying President Trump because he’s a DA hell-bent on enforcing the “rule of law.” No, Bragg downgraded 60 percent of felony cases last year. Bragg charged hundreds of felonies as misdemeanors, and helped harden criminals avoid serious punishment. And Bragg upgraded a time-barred bookkeeping misdemeanor, at best, into 34 felonies to get Trump.
Have you heard about the wave of women getting randomly punched in New York City? Well, Alvin Bragg set free one of the perpetrators. Violent felons are assaulting New Yorkers while Bragg focuses his resources on targeting Joe Biden’s political opponent.
Everyone understands what this case is about. It’s an election-year assault on the Democrat Party’s number-one enemy.
As even Never-Trumper Jonah Goldberg put it, “if President Trump’s ‘name were John Smith, Alvin Bragg would not be bringing this case.’”
Mike Davis is the founder and president of the Article III Project, which defends constitutionalist judges. As the former chief counsel for nominations to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA), he served as the staff leader for Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation. Davis served as a law clerk to Justice Neil Gorsuch, both on the 10th Circuit and Supreme Court.