The world waits to see if Donald Trump will, as he warned, be arrested today. Andy McCarthy has explained why we should not expect things to play out quite that way. The NYPD will doubtless be ready nonetheless for Trump-inspired protests that may run a risk of turning violent.
We still don’t know how things will go, but it seems to me that there is an additional reason not to expect much to happen today in Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s investigation of Trump: Trump has given Bragg the power to make him look foolish. It’s not as if Trump publicly predicted an event over which neither of them have any control: If Trump is indicted today, it will be because Bragg decided it should happen today. Letting his adversary decide whether his own prediction comes true is like when Chris Darden asked O. J. Simpson to try on the bloody glove to see if it fit. If Bragg has any sense, he will do nothing today and let Trump look foolish — unless, of course, the statute of limitations is driving him to treat today as a legal deadline.