Steven Crowder published some undercover video Thursday which renews some old doubts about what really motivated Alvin Bragg’s case against Donald Trump.
As you probably remember, Bragg used some creative legal work to turn a bunch of misdemeanor infractions involving business records into a host of felony charges. Now the DOJ Chief of Public Affairs for the southern district of New York, Nicholas Biase, is on video saying the whole case was “nonsense.”
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Kudos to Crowder for getting the video but also for saying right out of the gate that Biase is not the bad guy here. What we’re getting is an unbiased take from someone who worked with Alvin Bragg for 10 years.
“He [Bragg] was stacking charges and rearranging things just to make it fit a case. No, to be honest with you I think the case is nonsense,” Biase said. He continued, “Every real estate person in New York does what he [Trump] did. Nobody’s ever been charged with this. It’s all him [Trump].”
“You know it’s a perversion of justice,” Biase said.
In other words, this was motivated by partisan politics. And Biase isn’t the first person to say so. Just after the verdict was announced, former federal prosecutor Elie Honig wrote a piece for New York Magazine making the case that Bragg contorted the law.
…when you impose meaningful search parameters, the truth emerges: the charges against Trump are obscure, and nearly entirely unprecedented. In fact, no state prosecutor – in New York, or Wyoming, or anywhere – has ever charged federal election laws as a direct or predicate state crime, against anyone, for anything. None. Ever…
…to inflate the charges up to the lowest-level felony (Class E, on a scale of Class A through E) – and to electroshock them back to life within the longer felony statute of limitations – the DA alleged that the falsification of business records was committed “with intent to commit another crime.” Here, according to prosecutors, the “another crime” is a New York state election law violation, which in turn incorporates three separate “unlawful means”: federal campaign crimes, tax crimes, and falsification of still more documents. Inexcusably, the DA refused to specify what those unlawful means actually were – and the judge declined to force them to pony up – until right before closing arguments. So much for the Constitutional obligation to provide notice to the defendant of the accusations against him in advance of trial. (This, folks, is what indictments are for.)
In these key respects, the charges against Trump aren’t just unusual. They’re bespoke, seemingly crafted individually for the former president and nobody else.
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So this is one more person at the federal level who thinks the Bragg case was partisan nonsense. I wonder how many more people like this are out there and why it takes an undercover sting video to hear from them.
Maybe someone at the NY Times could round up a few people (on or off the record) who believe the Bragg case was partisan junk and put that on the front page. Again, kudos to Steven Crowder for getting this and doing the work the left-leaning media won’t do.
Also notice that Biase doesn’t seem any more impressed with the Georgia case run by Fani Willis. He calls that one “a mockery of justice.” There seems to be a lot of this partisan gotcha going on in the justice system when it comes to Trump. You don’t have to believe he’s pure as the driven snow to see that he’s also being railroaded by partisans for political reasons. Here’s the report.
BREAKING: DOJ Chief of Public Affairs Admits Trump Indictments Are a Politically Motivated “Perversion of Justice”; Reveals Lawfare Involved in Making Former President a “Convicted Felon” Backfired on Democrats; Claims His Former Colleague Alvin Bragg’s Case is “Nonsense” And… pic.twitter.com/IQhR0ax2pw
— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) September 5, 2024
