Alvin Bragg Opposes Trump’s Dismissal Motion

My hope is that common sense prevails.

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Left: Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg at a news conference in New York City, September 8, 2022. Right: Former president Donald Trump at the America First Policy Institute America First Agenda Summit in Washington, D.C., July 26, 2022.

Caitlin Ochs, Sarah Silbiger/Reuters

President-elect Donald Trump’s guilty verdicts should stand and the proceedings against him be suspended for the four years of his imminent term as president. That is the position taken by prosecutors in the office of Manhattan’s elected progressive-Democratic district attorney, Alvin Bragg, in a submission filed Tuesday with Judge Juan Merchan. The state was responding to Trump’s motions to vacate the verdicts and dismiss the indictment against him.

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Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.

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