Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg compared former President Trump to sex criminals Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein during his 2021 campaign.
Constitutional law expert Jonathan Turley explains on ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’ how Manhattan District Attorney dropping his bid gave Republicans a ‘victory’ in their House Oversight Committee investigation.for alleged campaign finance violations compared him to sex criminals Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein during his 2021 campaign.
In January 2021, as he was campaigning for district attorney, Alvin Bragg argued that"being a rich, old White man has allowed you to evade accountability" in the New York City borough, and that he would make sure to hold Trump"accountable" if elected. "We got two standards of justice," he said during a radio interview on WQHT."Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Epstein – being a rich, old White man has allowed you to evade accountability in Manhattan. That includes Trump and his children — they were engaged in fraud in a SoHo real estate deal with his children."the Trump Organization settled a decade earlier in 2011. Trump SoHo condominium purchasers who initially claimed to have been defrauded by Donald Trump Jr.
"So, you are right, we have two standards of justice," Bragg continued in his radio interview, speaking to co-hosts Ebro Darden and Peter Rosenberg."I grew up in the second standard in Harlem. I know all about it." "I’m the candidate in the race who has the experience with Donald Trump," he said at the time."I was the chief deputy in the attorney general’s office. We sued the Trump administration over 100 times, for the Muslim travel ban, for family separation at the border, for shenanigans with the census. So, I know how to litigate with him. I also led the team that did the Trump Foundation case. So, I’m ready to go wherever the facts take me, and to inherit that case.
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