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Democrat Senate Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) refused to state his confidence in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who is expected to indict former President Donald Trump.
Schumer’s remarks came during a press conference on Wednesday.
“Do you have confidence in Alvin Bragg?” one reporter asked Schumer.
Schumer refused to answer, instead insisting that it is “premature to comment” on the situation.
“Look, the bottom line is, as I said, it’s premature to comment on what’s happening, and we’ll have to wait and see what he does,” Schumer responded.
REPORTER: “Do you have confidence in Alvin Bragg?”
SEN. SCHUMER: “It’s premature to comment on what’s happening, and we’ll have to wait and see what he does.”
Translation: Even Schumer know this is bull ?
Bragg is investigating Trump for his alleged role in paying Stormy Daniels hush money.
Bragg, who was financially tied to Democrat megadonor George Soros in his campaign for DA, began relitigating Daniels’ story “to jump-start [the DA office’s] criminal investigation” into Trump within Bragg’s first year in office, per the New York Times.
The investigation includes Trump’s former pers onal attorney Michael Cohen, who has said he was pressured to make a $130,000 hush money payment on behalf of the former president to Daniels ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
Cohen in 2018 was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to numerous crimes involving tax evasion, arranging payments to silence women, and misleading Congress about past business dealings in Russia.
Trump thrust his possible indictment into the spotlight over the weekend after he spoke about “illegal leaks” from the Manhattan district attorney’s office that purported he would be arrested this week.
“Here we go again — an outrageous abuse of power by a radical DA who lets violent criminals walk as he pursues political vengeance against President Trump,” House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) tweeted. “I’m directing relevant committees to immediately investigate if federal funds are being used to subvert our democracy by interfering in elections with politically motivated prosecutions.”… (Read more)
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