Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who’s reportedly planning to prosecute Donald Trump
over “hush” payments to Stormy Daniels made in 2016, sent an email to
his employees Saturday afternoon outlining his plans to protect them
from any physical threats arising from the arrest, and laughably claims
that his office applies the law “evenly and fairly,” and that they
“speak publicly only when appropriate.
Considering the number of charges he’s dropped and the percentage of
felony charges he’s reduced to misdemeanor (52!), it’s crystal clear
that the only people whose safety he cares about are the people in his
office, and given the overall state of the city those words ring hollow.
According to the email, obtained by independent journalist Breanna Morello, Bragg wrote in part:
“…Please know that your safety is our top priority. We
have full confidence in our outstanding security staff and
investigators, along with our great OCA and NYPD colleagues, and will
continue to coordinate with all of them. We do not tolerate attempts to
intimidate our office or threaten the rule of law in New York.
Our law enforcement partners will ensure that any specific or
credible threats against the office will be fully investigated and that
the proper safeguards are in place so all 1,600 of us have a secure work
environment.
This office is full of the finest public servants in the country. I
am committed to maintaining a safe work environment where everyone is
able to continue to serve the public with the same diligence and
professionalism that make this institution so renowned. In the meantime,
as with all of our investigations, We will continue to apply the law
evenly and fairly, and speak publicly only when appropriate.”
What’s threatening the rule of law in New York is Bragg himself, and his politically-motivated and legally extremely questionable
planned prosecution of Donald Trump is just the latest example. As
readers might recall, in July 2022 Bragg pressed charges against a
bodega owner who killed a violent parolee who attacked him during an armed robbery:
61-year-old, 5′ 7″ [Joe] Alba was attacked by
35-year-old, 6-foot violent parolee Austin Simon. Alba fought him off
with a knife, ultimately killing him. Alba was ordered held under
$250,000 bail, down from the staggering $500,000 initially requested
by Bragg, sent to Rikers Island, and charged with 2nd-degree murder in
an outrageous prosecutorial overreach. The bail was eventually lowered,
but Tuesday the actual (ridiculous) charges were finally dropped after
enormous public outcry.
After Bragg took office in January 2022 he rejected filing charges against Trump, but that has obviously changed:
Bragg himself wasn’t hot for this case when he came in,
and two prosecutors quit because Bragg was refusing to go along with
this. But desperation can go a long way. Turley points out that one of
the prosecutors even wrote a book trying to lay out the case against
Trump, which Turley said was “shocking” because it was “unprofessional
and improper.” But now, Bragg ultimately appears to have caved into
Democratic pressure and is going ahead with this charade.
Even and fair application of the law, my foot.
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