Donald Trump knows what he wants to be: the martyred candidate.
His pursuer answers for Alvin Bragg, a 49-year-old Democrat and chief district attorney for Manhattan. He is the first African American in this position.
As a fortune teller, Trump failed. He was not arrested Tuesday on Bragg’s warrant in allegedly bribing a porn actress to keep quiet about an alleged sexual relationship, which he denies.
The decision, whatever it is, seemed imminent. But the wait lasts until at least this Thursday. The prosecution canceled Wednesday’s meeting of the grand jury that is to vote on the resolution on the former president.
But his campaign of harassment and demolition of the judicial course, launched last Saturday, has already put him at the center of the universe in search of being the protagonist and obtaining political gain in his new electoral commitment.
Some of his advisers leaked to the media that the former president is willing to show himself handcuffed and starring in that parade that the police generally dedicate to low-level detainees.
They said he doesn’t care if he becomes the first former president of the United States with a criminal indictment. His pose would show that he does not hide ashamed and would turn his challenge into another of his shows on that reality television that has given him so much revenue.
Everything indicates that, if there is an accusation, his lawyers will agree to the delivery so that there is discretion in the face of possible security problems after inciting the protests himself. But those around him say that, according to The Guardian, he is willing to “take a bullet” if that makes him the victim of the system.
This attitude requires an enemy, something that Trump needs in his usual conduct. If Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden or a false conspiracy about the lie of electoral theft in 2020 were already, this time the bad guy in his movie is Bragg. The color of his skin has not gone unnoticed in the attacks on him for a former president who has courted white supremacists in the White House and outside.
“He’s a racist,” Trump said of the prosecutor in his string of messages to put pressure on justice, Republican leaders and their bases. And he accused his judicial enemy of leading a political vendetta.
“The moment we started to think that we are political, we have taken a really wrong turn,” Bragg declared at the start of the term in January 2022 that he had won in November 2021. “We look at the facts and the law,” he said. as your pattern. But it is a case against a former president of the country that places him in the national orbit.
A New Yorker born and raised in the Harlem neighborhood, in the eighties, and in the midst of the crack epidemic, Bragg reached his peak with a campaign in which he advocated greater control of police actions and with a much closer approach. human. This included betting on eliminating cash bail to get out of jail – which perpetuates the imprisonment of the poor regardless of the importance of their crime – and imposed that he would not request preventive pressure for small matters. This has cost him Trump and others to portray him as someone who lets crime run wild in New York. He received his law degree from Harvard, served as a civil rights attorney, prosecutor, and assistant district attorney, where he focused on public corruption, white-collar fraud, and police liability cases.
In his performance as a prosecutor, he participated in 2017 and 2018 in a group of matters raised against the Trump administration. One of these was a civil case about the irregularities of the family business of the then president. Already as chief prosecutor, last December, he achieved the sentence against that company for tax fraud.
But his entry into the highest office was marked by controversy. His predecessor had authorized his prosecutors to convene a grand jury to criminally investigate Trump’s business dealings. When everything indicated that there would be an indictment, Bragg decided not to proceed. The two in charge of the matter, Mark Pomerantz and Carey Dunne, resigned over that decision.
There was surprise. Bragg authorized a grand jury to investigate the alleged bribery of Stormy Daniels, the porn actress matter that the others filed away.
This is the case with which Bragg can make history.
