For all Democrats’ screams about Donald Trump’s threat to democracy, their own abuses of the law against him add up to a potent threat in its own right.
Several of the cases are outright ridiculous: Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, for one, opted to resurrect hush-money charges against Trump that his predecessor and federal authorities found too weak.
Bragg accuses The Don of falsifying business records to hide a $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels to stay silent about an alleged affair, yet the DA’s charges depend on an application of the law that’s never been used before on anyone.
The alleged wrongdoing took place eight years ago (raising statute-of-limitations issues), and the case just happens to come smack in the middle of Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign.
Bragg’s star witnesses? A convicted lawyer, Michael Cohen, and Daniels, the former porn star.