It’s ba-ack: the Trump investigation that will not die. The New York Times reports that, in a “dramatic escalation,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s prosecutors are now presenting evidence to a state grand jury, setting their investigation “on a path toward charges against the former president.”
Referring to Bragg’s predecessor in this context, I’ve previously described Trump as “Cy Vance’s White Whale.” While it’s hard to get progressive prosecutors to mobilize against the varieties of crime that have made one-party, Democrat-controlled, big blue cities increasingly unlivable — especially violent crime, gang crime, and subway crime (these categories are not mutually exclusive) — Vance spared no expense in his quest to nail Trump on penny-ante nonsense, including hush-money payments to a porn star that almost certainly did not violate federal campaign-finance laws, which is why federal prosecutors dropped their Trump probe. As those federal laws are not a basis for state prosecution, the DA has had to develop even more tenuous theories of criminal liability.
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