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and saw two of his prosecutors — Mark Pomerantz and Carey Dunne — resign and leak that they had left out of anger that Bragg wouldn’t pull the trigger on a prosecution. Pomerantz even wrote a book ear-
lier this year detailing the internal workings of the Bragg investigation. In it, he admitted that career pros- ecutors in Bragg’s office “were relent- lessly negative” about the wisdom of bringing the Daniels case. He also admitted that Bragg told
him “the consensus among the group of prosecutors with whom he had been speaking was not to go forward.” Bragg was faced with a difficult
choice. One, stand up to the pressure from
the left to go after Trump’s scalp, whatever the facts, and be targeted in a future primary. Or two, become a celebrity prosecutor by being the first person to have indicted a former president. He could ride that fame into the
New York governor’s mansion or another high office at a future point. In the end, Bragg chose to practice braggadocio and politics rather than prosecutorial discretion. Jonathan Turley, a law professor
at George Washington University, says that Bragg’s whimper of a case will greatly damage the rule of law: “He has bulldozed any high ground that the Democrats had after Jan. 6. He has fulfilled the narrative of the Trump campaign by supplying a raw and undeniable example of the politi- cization of the legal system.” Turley believes there is a “good
faith debate” over whether Trump should be charged with possible obstruction of justice over keeping classified documents at his Mar-a- Lago estate after leaving the White House. But he believes the misguided
Bragg indictment is “not just pros- ecution, it is exclusive prosecution for Trump and Trump alone.”
12 NEWSMAX | MAY 2023
COMMENTARY Bottomless Cynicism
of Progressives They’ve made justice a
T
tool of the left. BY J. PEDER ZANE
he indictment of don- ald Trump exposes the bot- tomless cynicism of pro- gressive politics.
The goal is not to put Orange
Man in an orange jumpsuit but to ensure he’s the Republican nominee in 2024.
Democrats consider Trump the
easiest candidate to defeat and by turning him into a martyr, they hope GOP voters will rally around him. They are willing to roll the dice
on a potential second term for a man they compare to Hitler, because they think it will improve their chances of victory. The brazen cynicism is amplified by the naked politics of the case. Man- hattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg — and, most assuredly, the party leaders advising him — have decided to make Trump the first former U.S. president ever indicted because of hush money to a porn actress. Crucial to the thumb-in-the-eye
message being sent are two facts: that the payments occurred years ago, in 2016, and that both fed- eral prosecutors and the Federal Election Commission declined to
pursue them. Of course, we are targeting our
political rival on nonsense, and there’s nothing you can do about it. To compound the insult, Demo-
crats and their henchmen on cable TV proclaim that this political dirty trick reenforces the principle that no person is above the law. Is anyone surprised? Of course
not. We expect progressives and deep state bureaucrats to use the levers of government to attack their enemies and protect themselves. The examples are legion. Com-
pare the aggressive pursuit of the Russiagate conspiracy hoax to the lack of interest in President Joe Biden’s con- nection to his family’s influ- ence peddling; the kid-glove treatment of violent Black Lives Matter protesters dur- ing the sum- mer of 2020 riots versus the
dogged pursuit of anyone near the Capitol on Jan. 6; the SWAT-team- like arrest of an abortion clinic pro- tester (who was quickly acquitted of all charges); and the refusal to arrest, let alone prosecute, anyone still ille- gally protesting outside the home of Supreme Court justices before the ruling overturning Roe v. Wade. The double standard is obvious,
and that is the point. Justice is a tool of the left. If you don’t like it, watch out.
The double standard is obvious, and that is the point. Justice is a tool of the leſt. If you don’t like it, watch out.
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