If there was any doubt that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg was a corrupt law enforcement official who abuses his office to prosecute his political enemies and protect his allies, it was eliminated Thursday when his office dismissed trespassing charges against 30 anti-Israel protesters who had been arrested after occupying a building on the campus of Columbia University.
Despite the violence, the physical damage to the building, and the atmosphere of intimidation that caused the cancellation of graduation, Bragg's office announced in Manhattan Criminal Courthouse Thursday that charges against 30 of the protesters would be dropped entirely and that the charges against 13 others could also be dropped as long as they were not rearrested in the next six months.
After Bragg's office dismissed the case, the unrepentant defendants held a press conference outside the courthouse where one of them, his face covered by a ski mask, promised he and his fellows would continue to "Resist the pigs, the police in the United States." Bragg's leniency to protesters whose anti-Israel views are shared by many Democrats contrasts starkly with his tortuously zealous and unprecedented prosecution of Republican Donald Trump for the misclassification of payments to his lawyer as legal expenses when Bragg claims they should have been recorded as repayments of a debt.
This normally would have put them outside the statute of limitations, so Bragg elevated misdemeanors into felonies by adding a second crime of which Trump was never tried or convicted.
Bragg brought the charges against Trump only to fulfill a political promise and help his fellow Democrats, who are desperate to help President Joe Biden defeat Trump in this November's election.
This is relevant because, as mentioned above, Bragg was able to turn the misdemeanor business filing charge into a felony only by referencing a separate crime Trump was never shown to have committed.
Bragg's decision to stretch New York law into an unprecedented prosecution of a political opponent was bad. To turn around and choose not to prosecute violent crimes committed by political allies adds injury to insult.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3055258/new-york-political-prosecutor-exposed/
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