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earers of the psycholog- ical disability known as “Trump Derangement Syn- drome” waited for years for
Donald Trump to be fi rst impeached, and when two attempts at that failed, they pined for his indictment. So, when Manhattan District
Attorney Alvin Bragg announced he would fi nally release the details of why he was prosecuting the former president, liberal pundits got up that morning prepared to go on TV for a celebration. Within hours they looked as if
they had instead shown up for an awkward funeral and sounded as if they wanted nothing to do with Bragg, America’s newest “celebrity prosecutor.” Even former FBI Deputy Director
Andrew McCabe, who was fi red by Trump just hours before he was to qualify for his pension through retire- ment, looked stricken. He told CNN that the Bragg indict-
ment “landed like a dud . . . commen- tators across the spectrum are saying: ‘Boy, there’s really not much in here.’ “It raises all kinds of questions
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Indictment Boomerang
DA’s reckless charges will come back to hurt the left more than Trump, predict critics.
about the legal theory behind this case. They’re gonna have a tough time, facing motions to dismiss.” Ruth Marcus, deputy editor of the Trump-bashing Washington Post’s editorial page, raised a warning fl ag on the indictment. “The theory on which it rests is debatable at best, unnervingly fl imsy at worst. “That is a scary situation when it
comes to the fi rst criminal charges ever lodged against a former presi- dent.” And this from an analyst who
openly admits she hopes Bragg wins a conviction! Some Trump critics openly
feared that Bragg’s indictment could become a boomerang that would hurt the left more than Trump. “It is very easy to see this case
tossed for legal insuffi ciency or tied up in the courts well past the 2024 election before it might ever go to trial,” mourned Rick Hasen, a lib-
eral law professor at the University of California at Irvine. “This kind of case can give cre-
dence to Trump claims of a witch hunt.”
Even Mitt Romney, the only Republican senator who voted to con- vict Trump in both his impeachment trials, criticized Bragg: “I believe the New York prosecutor has stretched to reach felony criminal charges in order to fi t a political agenda.” Newsmax TV commentator Mark
Halperin summed up the bleak view of Trump haters about the indict- ment: “The conventional wisdom is that this case is weaker than the North Korean smartphone industry.” Just about the only Trump haters
who exulted in the indictment were in the media. CNN hired a boat in the New York
harbor to get shots of Trump’s plane landing.
Reporters breathlessly compared
their drone coverage of Trump’s SUV traveling along the highway to the courtroom to the aerial pursuit of O.J. Simpson’s famous Bronco.
“The conventional wisdom is that this case is weaker than the North Korean smartphone industry.” — Mark Halperin, Political Commentator
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