Byron York in dailyherald: For New York prosecutor, Trump indictment is fulfillment of a campaign promise.
Alvin Bragg, the local district attorney in Manhattan who has led the effort to indict former President Donald Trump, is an elected official. He ran for his current office in 2021. In that campaign, he won a Democratic primary crowded with fellow Democrats who promised that, if elected, they would go after Trump. Now, having been elected, Bragg is going after Trump.
In June 2021, Bragg debated his top rival in the district attorney's race, Tali Farhadian Weinstein. Even though there are many, many issues confronting the Manhattan district attorney -- issues including rampant violent crime and protecting citizens from rampant violent crime -- much of the debate was about Trump. The headline of The New York Times story reporting the debate was"Two Leading Manhattan D.A. Candidates Face the Trump Question.
by signing up you agree to our terms of service Bragg, on the other hand, loved to talk about his many lawsuits against the Trump administration, President Trump himself and the Trump family. One of those suits was a successful case that led to the dissolution of the Trump Foundation. From the Times:"Mr. Bragg, at a Democratic candidate forum in December, cited that lawsuit as one reason he was qualified to oversee the district attorney's Trump investigation.
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