I get the sense that Trump’s arraignment will be much worse for Alvin Bragg (Where are Theodore and Simon?) than it will be for Trump.
Reading the indictment put forth by Bragg, it never really defines any of the crimes he claims Trump broke. There have been leaks from the grand jury and if it turns out the leaks came from Bragg, he is facing up to five years in prison.
The House Judiciary Committee is considering issuing subpoenas to Bragg and two of his prosecutors that q1uit. Lying to Congress is a serious offense.
Bragg faces a major dilemma. If he calls Michael Cohan, he would be guilty of suborning perjury. If he doesn’t call him, he has no case. This could cost him his license to practice law, which means he would have to resign as the prosecutor for the county.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) have been pressuring Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and his office for answers since last week, just days before the extraordinary indictment and arrest of a former U.S. President. Jordan and Comer have requested that Bragg testify before Congress.
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELOn Wednesday night, the same source told Fox News Digital that the House Judiciary Committee is seriously considering issuing subpoenas for Bragg and the two prosecutors who resigned from his team last year, Mark Pomerantz and Carey Dunne (who worked under Bragg’s predecessor Cyrus Vance), to appear before the panel and give testimony.
During Trump’s arraignment on Tuesday, the indictment was revealed in court by presiding trial Judge Juan Merchan, and the indictment proved to be very underwhelming to experts and pundits on both sides of the aisle.
“It is what I thought it was going to be in terms of the payments that were made; the falsification of the records is really tied to the payment that was made to Stormy Daniels. In terms of a case that’s being brought against a former president, it’s a little underwhelming,” CNN legal analyst Carrie Cordero told anchor Jake Tapper.
Bragg’s notoriety for downgrading crimes from felonies to misdemeanors contrasts sharply with his efforts to charge Trump with a felony for a federal misdemeanor after the statute of limitations passed. This move has put Bragg on the radar of Republicans, who view his actions as an abuse of power for political gain. As a result, Bragg now faces severe legal consequences.
Ian Millhiser, a senior correspondent at Vox stated:
“There is something painfully anticlimactic about Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s indictment of former President Trump. And there’s a very real risk that this indictment will end in an even bigger anticlimax. It is unclear that the felony statute that Trump is accused of violating actually applies to him.”
Former assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew McCarthy told Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto:
“If the judge does his job right here, the case should be dismissed and it actually should be dismissed quickly. I think this indictment—even before you get to the statute of limitations and whether he’s got jurisdiction to enforce federal law—I would dismiss it on its face because it fails to state a crime. Here it fails to state a crime 34 times!”
