Donald Trump has spent a big a part of this final month viciously attacking Manhattan district lawyer Alvin Bragg, seemingly within the hopes of both (1) avoiding being indicted for the 2016 hush cash scheme involving Stormy Daniels; or (2) inspiring violence towards the prosecutor within the occasion he’s really criminally charged. On Wednesday, although, he appeared to debut a brand new technique: kiss the grand jury’s ass.
Simply after 8 a.m., the previous president took to his social media account—which he began after Twitter banned him for inciting a riot that left a number of individuals lifeless—and wrote: “I HAVE GAINED SUCH RESPECT FOR THIS GRAND JURY, & PERHAPS EVEN THE GRAND JURY SYSTEM AS A WHOLE. THE EVIDENCE IS SO OVERWHELMING IN MY FAVOR, & SO RIDICULOUSLY BAD FOR THE HIGHLY PARTISAN & HATEFUL DISTRICT ATTORNEY, THAT THE GRAND JURY IS SAYING, HOLD ON, WE ARE NOT A RUBBER STAMP, WHICH MOST GRAND JURIES ARE BRANDED AS BEING, WE ARE NOT GOING TO VOTE AGAINST A PREPONDERANCE OF EVIDENCE OR AGAINST LARGE NUMBERS OF LEGAL SCHOLARS ALL SAYING THERE IS NO CASE HERE. DROP THIS SICK WITCH HUNT, NOW!”
Clearly, the assaults on Bragg—the primary Black individual to function Manhattan’s prime prosecutor—are nonetheless there. However there’s additionally the very cringeworthy try and flatter and affect the members of the jury, which some individuals suppose won’t be authorized.
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Trump, after all, has not but been charged regardless of actually claiming earlier this month that he could be arrested on Tuesday of final week, which introduced the information cycle into an indictment-watch frenzy.
In the meantime, current stories have instructed, for various causes, that ought to Trump be indicted, it won’t occur till a number of weeks from now. On Wednesday, Politico famous that the grand jury analyzing the hush cash case isn’t anticipated to listen to proof “for the subsequent month largely because of a beforehand scheduled hiatus,” which might “push any indictment of the previous president to late April on the earliest.” At some point prior, Insider reported that it’s potential the jury has already determined whether or not or to not cost the ex-president, however the DA’s workplace could have determined to “slow-walk the post-vote course of for days, forestalling the second when Trump is formally indicted, as is of their discretion and energy to do,” in accordance with authorized specialists.
