After a challenging first year in office, Manhattan's district attorney is back in the spotlight with a reinvigorated investigation of former President Donald Trump.
– When Alvin Bragg became Manhattan's first Black district attorney last year, one of his first big decisions was to tap the breaks on an investigation that had been speeding toward a likely criminal case against former President Donald Trump.
“We’re going to follow the facts and continue to do our job,” Bragg said, speaking broadly about the investigation in a recent interview with the Associated Press. He campaigned as a progressive reformer, but one with a strong record as a prosecutor, and won an eight-way party primary before soaring to victory with 83% of the vote in deep blue Manhattan.
U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin, a Republican running for governor, campaigned partly on a promise to remove the independently elected Bragg from office. He also featured Bragg in a campaign ad, even though Bragg wasn't even on the ballot.But Bragg, an old-school lawyer, was hesitant to push back publicly, something he now regrets.
“If someone wants to have substantive discussion, we can have that,” Bragg told the AP. “But if someone wants to put a Black face in an ad and have Willie Horton-type fears raised, we don’t have time for that.”
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