Alvin Blackface
''Democrats race to Bragg’s defense: Congress ‘should stay the hell out of it’ ''
thehill.com/homenews/house/3915361-democrats-race-to-braggs-defense-congress-should-stay-the-hell-out-of-it
23 March 2023
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'' House Democrats are racing to the defense of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) amid his criminal probe of former President Trump, saying the Republicans seeking to halt Bragg’s hush money investigation are encroaching on matters of independent law enforcement and should simply butt out. ''
“Let’s wait to see if there are going to be charges. Let’s see what the charges are. Let’s see what the evidence is,” said Rep. Ted Lieu (Calif.), vice chairman of the House Democratic Caucus. “And we should let law enforcement do their jobs without political interference.”
Trump stirred a hornet’s nest over the weekend when he predicted he would be indicted this week for his role in a 2016 payment to the adult film actress Stormy Daniels. The prediction proved false
— the grand jury in the case is expected to meet again next week
— but the very idea drew howls from Trump’s GOP allies on Capitol Hill, where the chairmen of three powerful House committees demanded that Bragg testifies before Congress.
“Your actions will erode confidence in the evenhanded application of justice and unalterably interfere in the 2024 presidential election,” Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), James Comer (R-Ky.), and Bryan Steil (R-Wis.) wrote to Bragg on Monday. Jordan chairs the Judiciary Committee; Comer leads the Oversight panel, and Steil heads the Administration Committee.
Bragg responded to the Republicans on Thursday, writing that Trump had created a “false expectation” in predicting his arrest this week. He declined the GOP entreaties to provide information, and Democrats are backing him, accusing Republicans of strong-arming judiciary officials and defending Trump over the rule of law.
“I was astonished, actually, when I saw the letter from the three committee chairs to Mr. Bragg, essentially calling on him to violate grand jury secrecy laws in New York, which of course is a felony,” Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-Md.), a member of the Judiciary Committee, told reporters on Thursday. “He rightly declined to do that.”
Yet Republicans are not the only figures criticizing Bragg this week. Some liberals are voicing concerns that the Manhattan district attorney is moving too quickly in the hush money case, fearing his indictment might arrive before federal and state prosecutors investigating several other episodes
— including Trump’s role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and his effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election
— bring potentially more severe charges.
Those liberal voices say an early indictment in Manhattan could benefit Trump politically, by rallying support from Republican voters who might be shifting away from the former president, but remain sympathetic to his warnings of a national “deep state” conspiracy targeting conservatives by all levels of government. They’re suggesting Bragg should back off to let the other investigations proceed first.
“A charge like this
— a porn star payoff seven years ago, somehow tied to the election but not really
— it doesn’t seem like the right way to go,” Van Jones, a liberal commentator for CNN, said this week. “History is not going to judge Donald Trump based on Stormy Daniels. They’re going to judge him based on the election, going to judge him based on the coup attempt.”
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Democrats on Capitol Hill have other ideas, however, and many wasted no time blasting the calls for Bragg to delay.
“I always scratch my head when I hear that
— as if we have the ability to politically choreograph the sequencing of criminal justice. I mean, give me a break,” Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) said.
“The process and the law should just play out, and we should stay the hell out of it.”
A vast majority of Democrats appear to agree. While many acknowledged there might be a political advantage if the Justice Department brought the first charges surrounding the Jan. 6 attack
— or Georgia prosecutors were the first to indict Trump for interfering in the 2020 election
— they emphasized that those are independent investigations being conducted by separate agencies, and any coordination between them would taint all of the probes.
“From a political standpoint, it may have an impact on how this is all interpreted and received, and how certain people are able to spin it,” Rep. Mark Takano (D-Calif.) said, referring to the possibility that Bragg may be the first prosecutor to bring charges. “But the central question is the independence of these prosecutors, and their ability to do their jobs. And they have to do their jobs regardless of the political fallout.”
Bragg’s office has sent recent signals that it may soon indict Trump in the scandal that involved Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, paying Daniels $130,000 in return for her silence surrounding an alleged affair with Trump a decade earlier. Trump, who denies the affair, later reimbursed Cohen, who was subsequently convicted of a series of felonies, spent time in prison, and is now the central witness against his former boss.
But it’s still unknown whether or when the grand jury will see fit to indict Trump, what the charges would be, or how challenging the path is to a potential conviction.
Legal observers suggest an indictment of Trump would likely focus on charges of falsifying business records, a misdemeanor. Pursuit of a felony would require showing the falsification was connected to another crime, but those options all carry their own pitfalls.
As the debate has evolved, some powerful Democrats
— including Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), who led Trump’s first impeachment
— have accused the Justice Department of moving too slowly in its investigations. But others said the sheer scope of the Jan. 6 probe is enough to justify the marathon process.
“The good news is the Department of Justice doesn’t care about my perception of their pace,” Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) said, pointing to the independence of the agency.
“When you are conducting an investigation that involves the former president of the United States you want to be sure that you have crossed every T and dotted every I. I think it does feel like it’s been a long time, but obviously, they’re gonna do what is necessary to fully investigate,” he said.
The hush money case also had a head start compared to the other probes, with the conduct first coming to light in 2018 and under investigation by the Manhattan district attorney’s office since May of 2021. Some Democrats said it’s been all but inevitable that the Stormy Daniels scandal would yield the first charges.
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“It’s almost predictable that the tawdry and the slimy would get him first. And I hate to say it that way, but that’s what I think of him,” Rep. Juan Vargas (D-Calif.) told The Hill.
“In many ways, you’d like to see some of the graver violations of law
— that I think he’s violated
— those come first,” he added. “But it’s Donald Trump. Of course, the circus comes first.”
Mychael Schnell contributed.
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Blackface is a form of theatrical makeup used predominantly by non-black people to portray a caricature of a black person.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackface#:~:text=Blackface%20is%20a%20form%20of,caricature%20of%20a%20black%20person.
Bragg, the first black Manhattan DA, grew up in Harlem but on one of the safest blocks around, an upper-middle-class enclave of brownstones known as Strivers Row, and since age 4 commuted to the elite Trinity School on Manhattan's Upper West Side - details he conveniently leaves out when he makes his case.
'He's made his biography his moral compass, making it seem like there's something magic about his life story that gives him the wisdom to establish policies that affect over one million people,' one insider told DailyMall.com. 'I'm not saying he hasn't experienced racism, but there's lots of privilege he leaves out of his story.'
''Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg tells tales of growing up in dangerous Harlem to justify police reforms ''
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10386785/Manhattan-DA-Alvin-Bragg-tells-tales-growing-dangerous-Harlem-justify-police-reforms.html
11 January 2022
By Shawn Cohen For Dailymail.com
Published: 09:43 EDT, 11 January 2022 | Updated: 10:41 EDT, 11 January 2022
Manhattan's new District Attorney Alvin Bragg regularly gives speeches about his childhood, recalling that cops and civilians pointed guns at him a half dozen times, and says it's his hardships growing up in Harlem that make him the right man for the moment.
But critics familiar with his upbringing tell DailyMail.com that he actually enjoyed quite a cushy existence, and should stop distorting his past to justify reforms that would keep all but the most serious felons out of jail.
Bragg, the first black Manhattan DA, grew up in Harlem but on one of the safest blocks around, an upper-middle-class enclave of brownstones known as Strivers Row, and since age 4 commuted to the elite Trinity School on Manhattan's Upper West Side - details he conveniently leaves out when he makes his case.
'He's made his biography his moral compass, making it seem like there's something magic about his life story that gives him the wisdom to establish policies that affect over one million people,' one insider told DailyMall.com. 'I'm not saying he hasn't experienced racism, but there's lots of privilege he leaves out of his story.'
Manhattan's new District Attorney Alvin Bragg regularly gives speeches about the hardships of growing up in Harlem, recalling cops pointing guns at him
DailyMail.com has learned that he grew up in an upper-middle-class enclave of brownstones and attended an elite school on the Upper West Side. Bragg is pictured with his parents
Alvin Bragg and his father at his graduation. He graduated from the Trinity School before he attended Harvard College. He graduated from Harvard cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in government in 1995
Bragg painted a far different picture of himself back in 1995 when he was a student at Harvard University and was featured in a college newspaper profile headlined 'The Anointed One' that mentioned nothing about the violence he now says he experienced.
>I found it curious that, according to wikipedia, both Trump's father and mother shared the same middle name ofChrist.
His FATHER and his paternal GRANDMOTHER
''Frederick Christ Trump Sr. (October 11, 1905 – June 25, 1999) was an American real estate developer and businessman. A member of the Trump family, he was the father of Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States.''
''In partnership with his mother, Elizabeth Christ Trump, Fred began a career in home construction and sales. ''Their real estate development company was incorporated as E. Trump & Son in 1927 (later called the Fred Trump Organization). It grew to build and manage single-family houses in Queens, barracks and garden apartments for U.S. Navy personnel near major shipyards along the East Coast, and more than 27,000 apartments in New York City. Trump was investigated by a U.S. Senate committee for profiteering in 1954, and again by the State of New York in 1966. Donald became the president of his father's real estate business in 1971, and they were sued by the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division for violating the Fair Housing Act in 1973; in the case settlement, the Trumps were ordered to take several measures to curb racial discrimination.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Trump
>I can see the name Christian or derivative Christ coming down through one side of the family, usually the male side but both parents sharing such a unique name can't be chance.
>His FATHER and his paternal GRANDMOTHER
>Frederick Christ Trump Sr. (October 11, 1905 – June 25, 1999) was an American real estate developer and businessman. A member of the Trump family, he was the father of Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States.
>In partnership with his mother, Elizabeth Christ Trump, Fred began a career in home construction and sales.
this him?