After Trump announced he believed he would be arrested by Alvin Bragg's office on Tuesday, his representative called the district attorney a 'George Soros-funded Radical Left Democrat prosecutor,' but just who is Manhattan's controversial DA? The Harvard educated lawyer, 49, joined the Manhattan District Attorney's Office in 2021, becoming the first African-American to hold the title.
Almost immediately, Bragg was met with massive criticism over his lax bail law, which saw many criminals repeatedly go in and out of the system without prosecution, allowing them to continuously terrorize New Yorkers.
Many violent crimes, such as robberies and gun possession charges, became less strict, but after a year in office, Bragg was forced to walk back on his soft on crime policy.
Alvin Bragg sent out a February 2022 memo to all his staff making it clear that any crime involving a firearm would be prosecuted as a felony - reversing the stance he took just a month ago.
On July 19, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office asked a judge to drop the charges Alba after having faced intense backlash, including criticism from the city's mayor.
Now, his name is back in the mix after Trump declared on Truth Social that Bragg's office was planning on arresting him on Tuesday over claims he paid porn star Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about their alleged affair.
Prosecutors inside DA Alvin Bragg's office told The New York Times they didn't know why Trump thought his arrest would happen as early as Tuesday.
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