Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s office has come out swinging today against House Republicans, whom his office is accusing of “unlawful political interference” in the Trump case. Leslie Dubeck, general counsel for Bragg’s office, sent a blistering missive to House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, Committee on House Administration Chairman Bryan Steil, and House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer accusing them of “baseless and inflammatory allegations that our investigation is politically-motivated.” The letter went on to accuse them of “interference with an ongoing state criminal investigation” and with an “unprecedented and illegal incursion on New York’s sovereign interests.”
Far from being rhetorically persuasive, the latest harrumphing from one of Bragg’s minions smacks of the Shakespearean “lady doth protest too much.” Bragg (an apposite surname if there ever was one) has made no secret of his personal animus for Trump, boasting repeatedly on the campaign trail two years ago of his experience going after Trump and the Trump family, and pledging to do whatever he could to bring Trump to accountability for all the crimes that Bragg believes him to be guilty of.
On a Hot 97 interview with Ebro Darden aired on January 15, 2021, for example, then-candidate Bragg laid out in damning detail his anti-Trump agenda and his biased motives. In response to whether he believed prosecuting Trump would be his number one priority, Bragg answered:
That is the number one issue we know he’s [i.e., then-NY DA Cy Vance] investigating and what I’ll say is I’m the only … candidate in the race who has the experience with Donald Trump. I was the chief deputy in the Attorney General’s office. We sued the Trump Administration over a hundred times, for the Muslim travel ban, for family separation at the border, for shenanigans with the census, so I know how to litigate with him. I also led the team that did the Trump Foundation case, so I’m ready to go wherever the facts take me.… It’d be hard to argue that that would be the most important, the most high-profile case. And I’ve seen him up front, and seen the lawlessness that he can do…. I believe we have to hold him accountable. I haven’t seen all the facts beyond the public, but I’ve litigated with him, and so I’m prepared to go where the facts take me once I’ve seen them and hold him accountable.
Admitting repeatedly that he needed to “watch his words” lest he be disqualified from any future Trump investigation for conflicts of interest, Bragg went on to admit that his hatred for Trump and his family was motivated in part by race:
We’ve got two standards of justice, with Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Epstein, being a rich old white man has allowed you to evade accountability in Manhattan. That includes Trump and his children.
We thus have an admittedly racist, anti-white (and possibly anti-Jewish, since Weinstein and Epstein are both Jewish) Manhattan DA pursuing a professed vendetta against Donald Trump — yet attacking Republican congressmen for allegedly politicizing the impartial machinery of New York state justice. It is no exaggeration to point out that politics and American jurisprudence have sunk to a new low.
