Alvin Bragg Officially CAVES, Makes Major Concession
After securing a criminal conviction against President Donald Trump, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg may now be running cover for Democrats who don’t want to see the Republican jailed before Election Day.
In a filing submitted on Friday, the progressive prosecutor said his office will not oppose a motion by Trump’s attorneys to delay a previously scheduled sentencing hearing on September 18th. The request came following a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling granting presidents absolute immunity from official acts performed in office which they argue could be construed to include actions around the hush money payment paid to adult film star Stormy Daniels. In June President Trump was found guilty of felony charges that he orchestrated the payments to assist his 2016 presidential campaign and then ordered the misclassification of the payments on business records. Prosecutors with his office now tell Judge Juan Merchan that discretion around a sentence, which could include jail time, will not include a recommendation from their office.
“The People defer to the Court on the appropriate post-trial schedule that allows for adequate time to adjudicate defendant’s [presidential immunity] motion while also pronouncing sentence ‘without unreasonable delay,’” prosecutors wrote, according to the Washington Examiner. “The Supreme Court’s recent decision did not consider whether a trial court’s ruling on that distinct evidentiary question is immediately appealable, and there are strong reasons why it should not be. Nonetheless, given the defense’s newly-stated position, we defer to the Court on whether an adjournment is warranted to allow for orderly appellate litigation of that question, or to reduce the risk of a disruptive stay from an appellate court pending consideration of that question.” Their honoring of a request for a delay is the second in as many months.
JUST IN: DA Bragg does *not* oppose Trump’s request to delay his sentencing, instead deferring to Justice Merchan.
They note the new/complex effect of the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling. https://t.co/kOw6qETBZF pic.twitter.com/2paU87ko1q
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) August 19, 2024
RedState contributor Bonchie immediately called the letter by Bragg’s office an “incredibly transparent” request to keep President Trump out of jail, thereby avoiding the risk of furthering public sympathy for the Republican just one month after he narrowly escaped an assassination attempt. Since then, President Joe Biden ended his reelection campaign, paving the way for Vice President Kamala Harris to be officially nominated by the Democratic Party at this week’s national convention in Chicago. Most mainstream polls show the veep in a dead heat with Trump, surpassing Biden’s sagging results from weeks earlier.
This is Bragg trying to protect Democrats from any possible backlash.
Incredibly transparent. https://t.co/GKTTtoqGrR
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) August 19, 2024
President Trump faces sentencing on 34 felony convictions and still has a federal J6 case that is all but certain to remain unresolved before Election Day. A Florida U.S. district judge last month dismissed his classified documents case, citing the Supreme Court’s July ruling. A fourth case in Georgia involving alleged election interference has been badly sidelined by prosecutorial misconduct.
In several bids to wrest media attention away from Vice President Harris, Trump has held winding press conferences from Mar-a-Lago where he accused Democrats of committing a “coup” by sidelining Biden and “installing” Harris. More than 14 million Democratic primary voters opted for Biden, a choice which has now been negated by her nomination, Trump alleges. Already, mainstream media outlets like the Washington Post are claiming that Trump’s argument is laying the groundwork for a refusal to abide by the results of the election should Harris win.
