'This is… troubling.'
expected this summer, the term for the grand jury that Vance convened last year will expire in April.he was"grateful for their service" and the investigation is ongoing."When high-level prosecutors quit like this, it's generally because they're being ordered to do something highly unethical,"
Dan Froomkin of Press Watch."In this case, they appear to have been told to stop pursuing Trump by the new DA. Wtf?"the resignations as a"very disturbing sign" and said that"when prosecutors resign rather than go along with a new district attorney that is a sign of severe disarray internally and likely a DA who pays little attention to real foundation of their office which are the line prosecutors.
Second is the possibility that Bragg is killing a weak investigation. There have long been doubts about the case Vance's team was trying to build. The indictment of Weisselberg and the Trump Organization was rather unusual: neglecting to pay taxes on fringe benefits is a criminal act, but it is rarely enforced so aggressively. As mentioned, Trump's knowledge would be hard to prove without a high-level cooperator. Still, the prosecutors who quit clearly believed in their case.
The truth could also lie in the middle—the case might not be definitively weak or strong but rather somewhere in between. So this could just be a genuine difference of opinion about the case, with no nefarious behavior necessary.
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