DA Bragg to cross the Rubicon and divide the nation by indicting Trump

 

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NY Post   "How much does a mug shot mean to you?

"To Alvin Bragg, it apparently means quite a lot. 

"All signs point to Bragg, Manhattan’s progressive prosecutor, indicting Donald Trump for his 2016 hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels. 

"The old Karl Marx line is that history repeats itself first as tragedy, then as farce.

"This historic first-ever indictment of a former president of the United States would skip straight to farce. 

"First, there’s the tawdry and relatively trivial subject matter.

"Trump stands accused by his critics on the left of fomenting an insurrection to overthrow the Constitution, and the criminal offense they are going to get him on stems from a dalliance with a porn star in 2006. 

"Then, more important, there’s the question of the merits. Unless Bragg has something unexpected on Trump, this appears to be a prosecution in search of a legal theory. 

"Everything indicates Bragg is more interested in subjecting Trump to the humiliations attendant to getting charged (turning himself in, getting fingerprinted and photographed) and the grinding distraction of defending himself against a criminal charge than the cogency of the case itself. 

"As The New York Times put it last week, the Bragg case “hinges on an untested and therefore risky legal theory involving a complex interplay of laws, all amounting to a low-level felony.”

"In other words, exactly what you want to indict a former president on. ". . .

Meaning Behind the Phrase to Cross the Rubicon (thoughtco.com)  "To cross the Rubicon is a metaphor which means to take an irrevocable step that commits one to a specific course. When Julius Caesar was about to cross the tiny Rubicon River in 49 B.C.E., he quoted from a play by Menander to say "anerriphtho kybos!" or "let the die be cast" in Greek. But what kind of die was Caesar casting and what decision was he making?". . .

Hollywood Celebrities Gloat over Trump Arraignment in New York: 'Locked Him Up' (breitbart.com)   "Hollywood celebrities could barely contain their emotions as former President Donald Trump (R) arrived at a New York court Tuesday for his arraignment in his alleged Stormy Daniels hush money case brought by Soros-backed Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D).

"Showbiz elites including Jimmy Kimmel, Jeffrey Wright, Chris Meloni, Ellen Barkin, Larry Charles, Mark Hamill, and Mia Farrow weighed in on Trump’s court appearance, offering a range of emotions, including glee, anger, and snark.". . .