Some legal experts have been skeptical about the viability of the case against Donald Trump. But “I’ve been doing this for a long time, and I do it with rigor, with granular focus to detail,” the Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg said.
—including to Stormy Daniels and, presumably, Karen McDougal—just before the 2016 election. He pleaded not guilty on all counts. The arraignment marks a historic precedent: never before had a former President of the United States been indicted on criminal charges by a grand jury.
He struck a similar note at a press conference following the arraignment, in which he said that the conduct “which was charged by the Grand Jury is felony criminal conduct in New York State. True and accurate business records are important everywhere to be sure. They are all the more important in Manhattan, the financial center of the world. That is why we have a history in the Manhattan D.A.’s office of vigorously enforcing white collar law.
On its face, the unprecedented post-Presidential prosecution of a Florida Republican by a progressive District Attorney in a Democratic stronghold is not the hallmark of a thriving democracy. But it is also true that this is the only circumstance so far in which Trump’s decades-long history of skirting the law has resulted in criminal charges against him. He has inhabited the gray areas of the law for so long that he could reasonably claim residency there.
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