FEC Commissioner Blasts DOJ’s Silence as Bragg Contorted Federal Law to Get Trump

If the defendant had been anyone other than Trump, the Justice Department would have zealously guarded its exclusive power to enforce campaign-finance law.

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Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg leaves a podium during the Memorial Day Ceremony at Soldiers and Sailors Monument in New York, May 27, 2024.

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‘The dog that didn’t bark.” That’s the way I described the collusion of President Biden in the farcical prosecution of his 2024 election opponent, former president Donald Trump, by Alvin Bragg, Manhattan’s elected progressive-Democratic district attorney.

That’s because the dog in question, the Biden Justice Department, did not do what it would have done in any other scenario in which a local prosecutor usurped DOJ’s exclusive authority to prosecute federal crimes: bark about it long and loud until the courts compelled the DA to stand down.

Andrew C. McCarthy

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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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