Donald Trump Revelations Put Alvin Bragg in 'Untenable Position'—Lawyers

AF Branco

Newsweek   "Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has been put in an "untenable position" with regards to the ongoing criminal investigation into Donald Trump's business dealings, following the "scathing" resignation letter from his former prosecutor, according to experts.

"On Wednesday, The New York Times published the letter from prosecutor Mark Pomerantz, who quit as special assistant district attorney in February amid reports Bragg had doubts about pushing forward with prosecuting the former president and paused the grand jury investigation needed to indict him.

"In the bombshell letter, Pomerantz, one of the top prosecutors working on the investigation into alleged tax fraud by The Trump Organization, said that the former president was "guilty of numerous felony violations" with regards to his "false" financial statements.

"Pomerantz also hit out at Bragg for not seeking criminal charges against Trump even though the district attorney's predecessor who started the investigation, Cyrus Vance Jr., urged the department to seek an indictment "as soon as reasonably possible" because of the evidence against the former president.". . ."

: A Trump indictment is like ‘Christmas for morons’

 Alvin Bragg doesn’t even bother to prosecute repeat violent offenders. This should tell you everything you need to know.

Heavy D Don’t Tweet, He Acts

  Ann Coulter

Everyone’s worried DeSantis won’t be as “exciting” as Trump on the campaign trail. After all-talk-no-action Trump, who cares about talk? This time, we want action.

"Isn’t it great to have the media complaining about what a Republican is doing, instead of what he’s tweeting?

 "The New York Times recently did a major investigation into Gov. Ron DeSantis’ suspension last August of a Florida prosecutor for the flimsy reason that he’d publicly announced that he would not enforce state law on abortion.

"The Florida legislature had just spent nearly two months banging out a compromise bill that allowed abortions up to 15 weeks — more liberal than most European countries — and included an exception for life of the mother. An abortionist would literally have to turn himself in to get prosecuted under this law.

"What kind of showboating clown would sign a public “pledge” not to prosecute a case that had about a 1 in 10 billion chance of ever landing in his office?

"Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Florida state attorney Andrew H. Warren.

"This wasn’t Warren’s first publicity stunt. Even a fawning profile on Warren in the Tampa Bay Times noted his penchant for going “out of his way to draw attention to himself,” setting him “apart from other elected prosecutors.”

"During the pandemic, Warren held a press conference to announce that he was prosecuting a church pastor for violating the county’s stay-at-home order by holding services — a misdemeanor offense.

"Days later, Gov. DeSantis issued an order expressly overriding the county’s shutdown rules — and Warren held a press conference to denounce the governor’s order. People will DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!" . . .  Full article...

Remy: People Will Die! (reason.com); "Remy channels his inner Elizabeth Warren to vilify the other side."

Musk Teases Schumer Over Jan. 6 Viral Video

Musk Teases Schumer Over Jan. 6 Viral Video - Conservative Cardinal 

"Elon Musk, the proprietor of Twitter, responded to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s post criticizing Fox News for broadcasting imagery from the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Musk did this by reposting a popular short clip of the video and asking the New York Democrat whether he wished it removed.

Musk Taunts Schumer

Musk responded to Schumer on Wednesday, tweeting a video clip from @StevenVoiceover, which shows the narrator posing as a tourist guide for the Capitol’s “insurrection” in order to mock him.

Musk captioned the video asking if he wanted it taken down.

 BREAKING : Previously Unseen January 6th Footage

BREAKING : Previously Unseen January 6th Footage pic.twitter.com/0jxqANbNVn

— @stevenvoiceover (@stevenvoiceover) March 7, 2023 

With his Schumerglower and his little clenched fists, Chuck led Democrats in their Two Minutes of Rage

Karine Jean-Pierre Dodges Question About Biden’s Support For Reparations

 Karine Jean-Pierre Dodges Question About Biden’s Support For Reparations | The Daily Caller

"I would refer you to.....

"White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre dodged a question about whether President Joe Biden supported reparations for slavery Tuesday.

“We understand that there’s a legislation on the Hill currently on this, on the study of reparations … and we think Congress is the appropriate venue for consideration on such action,” Jean-Pierre said in response to a reporter’s question during Tuesday’s White House press briefing. “And so, we’re going to leave it there for Congress to decide to let them go through their process that they’re taking at this moment, but I would — I would lay out and speak to what the president has done.” (RELATED: California’s Reparations ‘Task Force’ Cites Three Prominent Critical Race Theorists Dozens Of Times)

"Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee of Texas introduced legislation, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act or HR 40, to study reparations Jan. 9. A similar bill, also introduced by Jackson-Lee, was voted out of the House Judiciary Committee on April 14, 2021.". . . More..

Kamala Harris’ Husband Links Parents Speaking Out Against Woke School Boards To The… Holocaust?…

Weasel Zippers   Via JNS:

…"It was understandable that he emerged from Harris’s recent trip to Eastern Europe with some Jewish anecdotes along with his comments seeking to bolster the administration’s stand on the war in Ukraine. Speaking to Symone Sanders, a former staffer for Harris and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), on her MSNBC program, Emhoff recounted meeting a Holocaust survivor who had been forced to flee Ukraine because of the Russian invasion. Emhoff decided to use that women’s plight to denounce all sorts of hatred.

"Emhoff is hardly alone when it comes to attempts to universalize the Holocaust. Russian aggression is terrible but as bad as it is, it’s in no way analogous to the Nazi campaign to exterminate the Jewish people.

"Yet Emhoff didn’t stop there. Warming to his topic, he went on to claim that the hate that slaughtered Jews is somehow connected to just the Russian invasion but also to political debates in the United States. 

 

“Hate is interconnected,” said Emhoff. “You see it in the discourse in the country right now. You see it in the divide that we have. Just going to school meetings, you see that hate that is out there.”hat was an obvious reference to the heated arguments that have been going on in school-board meetings around the country in the last couple of years as angry parents have been calling those responsible for local education to account for the way toxic ideas like critical race theory and gender ideology have been seeping into classrooms and curricula

What Trump needs to understand about criticizing DeSantis

Salon

 American Thinker  "New York City District Attorney Alvin Bragg is rumored to be ready to bring a sham indictment against former president Donald Trump for allegedly paying porn star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential campaign to be quiet about a former affair.  As of this writing, whether or not this happens remains to be seen.  In the interim, political figures across the spectrum have weighed in on the matter, including Florida governor Ron DeSantis.

"Behaving eerily like leftist thought police, some staunch Trump-supporters had demanded that Governor DeSantis voice his unequivocal and unquestioning support for the former president.  DeSantis did respond to inquiring reporters and spent almost three minutes (start at 22:30) defending Trump and knocking Bragg for using a seven-year-old non-crime to push a political vendetta against a former president.  Of those three minutes, he spent nine seconds subtly digging at the impropriety of Trump's extramarital proclivities.  To the extent that he attacked Trump, he simply restated the allegations against him, stating, "I don't know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some type of alleged affair."

"DeSantis responded, but in a way that wasn't an exact carbon copy of how some Trumpists felt he should have.  Brianna Lyman of the Daily Caller thinks DeSantis "tanked" his 2024 chances.  Conservative think-tank cog Alex Bruesewitz accused DeSantis of "refusing to stand" with Trump.

"Refusing to stand with Trump?  Despite having "stood with" Trump for the near entirety of his response?  And this, despite the fact that Trump has launched unprovoked and libelous attacks at DeSantis for months?  I thought demanding unquestioned loyalty to mortal men was a tenet of totalitarian societies, not of self-described American conservatives. ". . .

Comment to this post:  Donald Henderson:  The real conflict here is not between DeSantis and Trump but instead the Republican Party and its grassroots. If Trump is brought up on Stalist charges yet again it is incumbent on the Republican Party to go full bar against the establishment. The Turtle, Mittens, and Bushes need to be openly challenged if they don’t support a very aggressive Republican Party defending trump. It is time for one voice and it is well past time for the Republican Party to step up.

First great nations forget God, then this happens

 First, that this kangaroo clown show indictment is being closely watched internationally, and the message being sent is that U.S. politics is starting to resemble the politics of a third world country... Monica Showalter

Mexico's president calls out Alvin Bragg, saying his indictment is a scheme to keep Trump off the ballot - American Thinker    "Whatever you think of Mexico's leftist president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, there's no disputing he knows every dirty trick in the third world playbook, having been on the receiving end of at least some of it.

"He's watching what's going on in the U.S. now, with Manhattan's "let-'em-all-out" district attorney, Alvin Bragg, seeking to indict President Trump on felony campaign finance charges, and smells the stench of 'banana republic' all over it.

"According to Newsweek:

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Tuesday defended Donald Trump, saying a potential indictment of the former president could be a move to prevent him from seeking reelection.

"Right now, former President Trump is declaring that they are going to arrest him," López Obrador, who is also known by his initials AMLO, said during a press conference. "If that were the case...it would be so that his name doesn't appear on the ballot."

"And it does have the stench of 'banana republic' all over it. A sudden epiphany of concern for rule of law, from a district attorney who let every crook out he could, is obviously about politics, not rule of law. Keeping Trump off the ballot is the obvious aim here and AMLO from abroad could see it from experience. 

"AMLO also pointed out that the U.S., which blew up the Nordstream II pipeline, had no business lecturing others on rule of law.".

Why a Trump Arrest Imperils the American Idea 

It always has been part of the American Oral Law that we do not take into custody or arraign our presidents or former presidents.

"Peril awaits the America I love if the 45th president of the United States is arrested or even “just” arraigned. When a former American president is targeted by the politically despicable woke, we all face disaster.". . .

 . . ."Two things I kept seeing on Monday, the eve of what might or might not be history being made in America (and not in a good way), tell me that we’re not as well-positioned on the right as we should be.". . .

Christian Who Escaped Chinese Persecution Warns US Descending Into 'Communist-Style of Governance'

 Christian Who Escaped Chinese Persecution Warns US Descending Into 'Communist-Style of Governance' (resistthemainstream.com)

“I saw the governor of California basically prescribe and order the church to shut down and say not only when they can worship, but how. The ways that he threatened to punish those churches and pastors sometimes were word-for-word exactly the same as what the CCP is using against the Chinese churches.”

"The leader of a watchdog group that monitors Christian persecution in China said he’s seeing echoes of the Chinese Community Party “playbook” in the U.S., and he’s worried it’ll get worse.

"Bob Fu, president of the U.S.-based non-governmental organization ChinaAid, said he’s seeing the same tactics in Western nations that the CCP uses to crack down on churches.

"The similarities are very, very striking between the Chinese Communist way of persecution and the American leftist way of restriction and even discrimination,” Fu told Fox News Digital.

"Fu said he has observed with concern how the left in the U.S. is increasingly exhibiting “dictatorial” attitudes both culturally and politically by censoring speech, enforcing “woke” culture and not tolerating dissent. He pinpointed the alleged political weaponziation of federal law enforcement agencies as a worrisome escalation of such trends.

“It is very shocking and horrible to see American society’s transformation evolving from its constitutional basis,” Fu said.". . .

Dinesh D'Souza: Here's Why I Think Tucker Carlson Stopped Airing Jan 6 Footage

First; Background: Posts from NBC attempt to make a strong case against Tucker's argument. But NBC has given us Joy Reid, Joe Scarborough, Ali Velshi and his report of "mostly peaceful" rioters the previous year. By showing their character with those people, it would take a major effort from me to side with them against Tucker and conservatives. TD

Virtually no one in Washington, Republican or Democrat, wanted to see this tape released tonight. pic.twitter.com/YfpvaIZTbn

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) March 7, 2023

Dinesh D'Souza :   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygg8Ed3kQQg

Juan del Barrio: "Thank you Dinesh. Yours is the best and, really, only explanation for Tucker's "about face" that I've heard to date. I'll never forget Chuck Schumer standing up there like a weasel and demanding that Tucker be silenced. Tucker's the only one on Fox News I actually trust but this damaged him a little. Now I'll never listen to another one of his pieces without wondering "What isn't he telling us?" You, on the other hand, were willing to be incarcerated for your beliefs and that puts you on an even higher rung than Tucker. Thank you for your service to this once great nation."

More questions than answers in the wake of Tucker Carlson's January 6 exposé - American Thinker  "John Dale Dunn's blog piece from March 11 titled "Tucker Carlson pulled his punches" was a little bit harsh.  A little bit.

"While I agree that it appeared that Tucker Carlson shifted from a fairly assertive open (on Monday) to a significantly less assertive set of shows throughout the balance of the week, he did hit a few nerves and caused an apoplectic response from the January 6 committee members, the Democrats, a handful of weak-kneed Republicans, and the plurality media.

"In his Monday open, Carlson expressed that neither the Capitol Hill Police nor Fox News executives or producers set any limits on his content.  After Monday's show, with Chuck Schumer demanding that Tucker's show be censored, it sure looked as though any further video was squelched in the crib.  Tucker Carlson should answer whether his producers demanded that he not air further content.". . .

Joe Biden Lies a Lot Even for a Democrat

  PJ Media

I don’t know about you, but I grab my wallet and check my bank accounts every time an elected Democrat starts caterwauling about “fairness.”

. . .We’re still reeling as a nation from the fact that the man who currently occupies the Oval Office has the mental capacity of a diminished gnat. If we’re being honest with each other — and we always are here — Joe Biden was never the sharpest tool in the shed. A lot of what we’ve been witnessing since Jan. 20, 2021, gets attributed to his age but Biden has always been a no-filter loon whose grip on reality is tenuous on his best days.

"And he’s always been a liar.

"Over the years, many — even conservatives — have called what Biden does “embellishment.” No, he’s a liar. The younger people who were duped into voting for him don’t know that his 1988 presidential run was derailed because it was found that he was a big-time plagiarist in college. That’s a sign of fundamental dishonesty, something that Biden has exhibited throughout his long, overrated career in Washington.

"When you’re the head honcho, that kind of thing rubs off on everyone. Yeah, the Democrats are truth-challenged all of the time, but this group is taking prevarication to new depths.

"Catherine wrote yesterday about Biden and Company’s latest trip down Blatant Falsehood Lane:. . ."

. . ."As Catherine mentioned, the Dems haven’t come to grips with the fact that they can’t lie with impunity on Twitter anymore and get away with it. What happened after Biden’s social media intern released that bit of nonsense into the wild shows why the lefties complain so much about the Elon Musk version of the social media giant:

The tweet now has a label that says, “Readers added context they thought people might want to know.” The fact-check included a link to a TaxFoundation.org 2023 update and the data, “This is incorrect. Avg income tax rate in 2020 was 13.6%. Top 1% of taxpayers paid a 25.99% avg rate, more than eight times higher than the 3.1% avg rate paid by the bottom half of taxpayers. It increased from 20.1%/2019 to 22.2%/2020.”

Tucker Carlson Breaks Down the Lawfare Constructed, Banana Republic, Persecution of Donald Trump, indictment Wednesday

The Last Refuge (theconservativetreehouse.com)  "For his opening monologue tonight, Fox News host Tucker Carlson breaks down the Manhattan case against President Trump as constructed by District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

"Carlson notes and contrasts recent -almost identical situations- involving former Democrat presidential candidate John Edwards, and later Hillary Clinton.  The legal merits of the campaign finance case are farcical on their face as admitted by the Federal Election Commission (FEC), previously litigated via legal precedent (John Edwards), and even Supreme Court interpretation (VA Gov Bob McDonnell).

"Additionally, even if there was a legal issue, there isn’t, the statute of limitations on the claimed infraction has expired.  Furthermore, and seemingly overlooked by most pundits opining on the issue, the legal issue Bragg is attempting to weaponize is a federal campaign finance issue, out of the jurisdiction of the Manhattan district attorney. So, what gives?

"Why would George Soros funded District Attorney Alvin Bragg proceed with a case that was structurally designed to fail on every aspect of the case?  The answer, ‘politics’, pure banana republic politics.  Tucker Carlson, explains…. WATCH:"

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BREAKING: Trump Indictment Set for Wednesday, Will be Told to Surrender (trendingpoliticsnews.com)

NYPD is the largest police department in the country, with roughly 36,000 current officers and 19,000 civilian employees. This week’s memo suggests that all 36,000 officers are expected to be in uniform and on standby for deployment on Tuesday.

Bragg Accused of Withholding Exculpatory Trump Evidence from Grand Jury - Headline USA  "Taking a page from the erstwhile House Jan. 6 committee and Attorney General Merrick Garland’s politicized Department of Justice, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg was accused Tuesday of withholding hundreds of pages of exculpatory evidence from the grand jury considering whether to indict former President Donald Trump.

"Robert Costello, the former legal adviser of key Bragg witness Michael Cohen, first levied the allegations Tuesday night on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show.

"He said Bragg was hiding “all of the files he had previously turned over to the D.A. that corroborated Cohen’s original story.”. . .

 Wait just a minute here....Hollywood Producer: Oversight of Bragg's Prosecutorial Misconduct is RACIST - Headline USA  Fighting "racism" with racism are we, sir?

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Hollywood producer and screenwriter John Ridley lectured the American people in a “Morning Joe” appearance on Tuesday, insisting that white GOP congressmen should not question the actions of black Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.