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WATCH: Alvin Bragg Says He ‘Followed The Facts’ After Campaigning On Prosecuting Trump
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg told reporters that he “followed” the facts in his case against Donald Trump after campaigning on prosecuting the former president.
“The 12 everyday jurors vowed to make a decision based on the evidence and the law, and the evidence and the law alone. Their deliberations led them to a unanimous conclusion, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the defendant, Donald J. Trump, is guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree to conceal a scheme to corrupt the 2016 election,” Bragg told reporters.
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In order to charge Trump with a felony for what would generally be a misdemeanor bookkeeping violation, Bragg claimed that Trump conspired to falsify business records for payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels in an effort to conceal another crime. The D.A.’s office never identified the supposed underlying crime, while Judge Juan Merchan told jurors that they did not have to agree on what the never identified crime even was.
Bragg also used COVID-era policies to extend the statute of limitations, which had long since expired, in order to bring the case. He also opted to indict the former president after both the Department of Justice and the FEC conducted their own respective probes and declined to bring charges.
Despite the numerous irregularities surrounding the case, it took a jury in deep blue Manhattan less than nine hours to find a former president guilty on 34 felony counts, each of which carries a maximum prison sentence of four years.
“And while this defendant may be unlike any other in American history, we arrived at this trial, and ultimately today at this verdict, in the same manner as every other case that comes through the courtroom doors by following the facts and the law and doing so without fear or favor,” Bragg told reporters on Wednesday.
Despite the far-left, Soros-funded D.A.’s claims of impartiality, he previously made bringing a case against former President Trump a centerpiece of his campaign in 2021.
“Let’s talk about what’s waiting for the new D.A. The docket — we know there’s a Trump investigation. I have investigated Trump and his children… I also sued the Trump Administration more than 100 times,” Bragg said on the campaign trail. He frequently flaunted his past experiences with bringing cases against Trump and his family as a selling point when running for his current office.
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