'This is just Bragg's moment in the limelight. This is the self-promotion extravaganza of a man so lacking in professional ethics that he campaigned on a subtle but unmistakable promise to go after Trump.' -dcexaminer
As protesters and curious onlookers of every political stripe stood by, a defiant Donald Trump raised his hand in a clenched-fist salute as he left Trump Tower for the Manhattan courthouse. Although the former president used his right and not his left for the gesture, it was evocative of Sherman McCoy — the deeply flawed, adulterous, and formerly powerful man falsely and ridiculously hounded by a vengeful New York prosecutor in Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities.
Trump is accused of 34 counts of"falsifying business records in the first degree." Each pertains to an invoice, check, or stub involved in the process of paying off porn star Stormy Daniels. It must be emphasized that even if there were some merit to this prosecution, it would still serve no public purpose at all. This case will not bring closure to victims , and it will not make the people of New York County any safer — not that Bragg has ever cared about New Yorkers' well-being. In fact, Bragg's comment after the release of the indictment, that"we cannot and will not normalize serious criminal conduct," flies in the face of his soft-on-crime record in office.
Like the Texas Democrats who arrested then-GOP Gov. Rick Perry on transparently bogus and politically motivated charges in 2014, Bragg is trying to interfere with an election and make a big name for himself.
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