Priorities, eh? Woke Democrat DA Alvin Bragg who's set to indict Trump is one of America's most controversial prosecutors after charging self-defense shopkeeper with murder and sending soft-on-crime memo
- Alvin Bragg, 49, has been massively criticized for his soft on crime policies
- Career criminals were running the streets, transit crimes were skyrocketing, and NYers were begging to bail reinstatement
- Despite citizens' cries for a safer city, Bragg's office has been focusing on arresting Trump
- Legal scholar Jonathan Turley said the long-running probe by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg was 'a flawed case'
- Bragg received large sums from a political action committee that took donations from billionaire political donor Soros
After Trump announced he believed he would be arrested by Alvin Bragg's office on Tuesday, his representative called the district attorney a 'George Soros-funded Radical Left Democrat prosecutor.' Just who is Manhattan's controversial DA?
The Harvard educated lawyer, 49, joined the Manhattan District Attorney's Office in 2021, becoming the first African-American to hold the title.
Setting himself part from his predecessors, he quickly instituted a 'soft on crime' policy that saw New York City become a blood-soaked hellhole.
Transit crimes skyrocketed up 50 percent - including a mass shooting and several shoved onto train tracks - and a bodega clerk was infamously charged with murder after he defended himself from a robber.
Almost immediately, Bragg was met with massive criticism over his lax bail law, which saw many criminals repeatedly go in and out of the system without prosecution, allowing them to continuously terrorize New Yorkers.
Even fellow Democrat Mayor Eric Adams, who promised New Yorkers he would crack down on crime that had risen during the pandemic, criticized him.
Alvin Bragg, 49, has been massively criticized for his soft on crime policies, which saw career criminals running the streets and New Yorkers afraid of being attacked
Adams revealed that 10 repeat offenders were responsible for nearly 500 crimes in the city, laying the blame for the repeated offending at Bragg's door. The announcement came with a rally call to judges and the legislature to do-away with lax bail reforms that are putting more violent criminals back on the street.
He told of how the reforms, ushered in under Democrats Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio, now made it impossible for criminals to be jailed.
At his press conference, Adams, a former cop, fumed: 'You have to work really hard to get to Rikers Island Jail right now. To get there, you had to do something that is really bad.'
In addition, Adams and Bragg received criticism after six police officers were shot within the first few weeks in office.
DA Bragg faced significant backlash after he charged shopkeeper Jose Alba, 61, with murder after he was attacked on July 1 by 35-year-old Austin Simon
Alba defended himself and in the ensuing fight Simon was stabbed to death, then the bodega worker was charged
After the DA faced intense backlash, including criticism from the city's mayor, charges were dropped.
Many violent crimes, such as robberies and gun possession charges, became less strictly enforced.
The DA reduced armed robbery charges to misdemeanors.
He even faced criticized from his fellow New York Democrat politicians, Mayor Eric Adams and Governor Kathy Hochul, who opposed his bail policy that was letting criminals back out. Adams campaigned for a safer New York and cracking down on crime while running for mayor
Shoplifting, he said, would be judged on a case-by-case basis.
He faced significant backlash after he charged shopkeeper Jose Alba, 61, with murder after he was attacked on July 1 by 35-year-old Austin Simon. Alba defended himself and in the ensuing fight Simon was stabbed to death but the bodega worker was charged.
Alba, who had faced a second-degree murder charge, was working at the Blue Moon deli on July 1 when he fatally stabbed Simon in the neck and chest.
Surveillance footage clearly showed that Simon had moved behind the counter at the convenience store in Hamilton Heights and pushed the store clerk into a stack of shelves before grabbing him.
It was only then that Alba reached over to a shelf and pulled out a knife to fight back.
During the altercation, Alba was stabbed by Simon's girlfriend, who instigated the argument when her benefits card was declined. The girlfriend was never charged in the incident.
Alba's attacker had prior convictions.
For a significant part of 2022, New Yorkers remember violent crime was up by as much as 40 percent, and they were begging for more officers in subway stations and for bail to be reinstated, instead of releasing arrested violent criminals immediately.
Now, his name is back in the mix after Trump declared on Truth Social that Bragg's office was planning on arresting him on Tuesday.
Now, his name is back in the mix after Trump declared on Truth Social that Bragg's office was planning on arresting him on Tuesday
"The George Soros-funded Radical Left Democrat prosecutor in Manhattan has decided to take his Witch-Hunt to the next level,' a spokesperson for Trump told DailyMail.com in a statement.
'President Trump is rightfully highlighting his innocence and the weaponization of our injustice system.'
Constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley of George Washington University said the charges that are expected to be brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg against Donald Trump are 'flawed'
Turley said: 'This is a flawed case based on a state charge effectively prosecuting the federal election violation. That federal case was rejected by the Justice Department. There are also statute of limitation questions that could come into play.
'Bragg may be able to expect highly motivated judges and jurors in New York. However, the novelty and questions in this case would present difficult appellate issues for the prosecution.'
Turley added to DailyMail.com: 'I am not confident that Bragg can bring this case under the statute of limitations.
'However, if he can shoehorn the federal charge into a state case, he still faces considerable challenges for a conviction. This is a notoriously difficult theory to prosecute, though this is the best jury pool that a prosecutor could hope for.'
Legal scholar Jonathan Turley told DailyMail.com the case against Trump would be 'notoriously difficult'
Federal prosecutors reportedly did not consider charging Trump over the payments while he was still in office because of Justice Department guidance that a sitting president can't be indicted.
They did look again at the matter after he left the White House, but opted against seeking an indictment because the issue seemed 'trivial and outdated'
In an analysis for The Hill, Turley further branded the case 'politically popular' but 'legally pathetic'.
Trump on his Truth Social account branded the probe 'corrupt and highly political', over an 'old and fully debunked fairy-tale.'
He would become the first former president ever to face criminal charges.
Elon Musk, the world's richest man, responded to the development on Saturday by stating that if he's charged, Trump would 'be re-elected in a landslide victory' in the 2024 presidential election.
A spokesman for Trump said Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg was a 'radical left Democrat' who was funded by George Soros (right)
Bragg received donations from a Political Action Committee that got funding from George Soros
During his campaign for election in 2021, Bragg received support from a political action committee that took money from George Soros.
Color Of Change PAC, the political action committee of the nation's largest online racial justice group, received $1 million from billionaire philanthropist Soros to support Bragg's candidacy.
Soros donated the money to Color of Change PAC as part of a $40 million drive to back district attorney campaigns across the country.
Matt Palumbo, author of The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros, said the funding by Soros was incredibly successful at achieving his aims of having left-leaning district attorneys elected.
'He's had more than a 90% success rate in getting a lot of these DAs elected,' he told Fox News in January.
'I hate to use the term brilliance with Soros, but one of the brilliant things he realized is… when you want to get policy reform done with law and order and in this case, degrading it, going through a DA is so efficient because you don't have to go through a state legislature, you don't have to go through a mayor.'
Kevin McCarthy, the Speaker of the House, has also criticized the investigation.
He said on Saturday: 'Here we go again — an outrageous abuse of power by a radical DA who lets violent criminals walk as he pursues political vengeance against President Trump.
'I'm directing relevant committees to immediately investigate if federal funds are being used to subvert our democracy by interfering in elections with politically motivated prosecutions.'
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