Trump slams ‘Soros-funded Radical Democrat prosecutor’ Alvin Bragg over Stormy Daniels case

Donald Trump’s team has criticized the New York lawyer seeking to prosecute him over hush money paid to Stormy Daniels as a “George Soros-funded radical Democrat.”

A spokesman for the former president issued the strongly worded criticism of Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg shortly after Trump claimed he would be arrested Tuesday.

The spokesman also indicated that Bragg’s office has not informed Trump or his legal team that the arrest is imminent.

A Trump spokesperson said: “There has been no report, other than illegal leaks from the Justice Department and the District Attorney’s office, to NBC and other fake news outlets, that the George Soros-funded radical left Democratic Attorney General in Manhattan has decided to take his witch hunt to the next level.

President Trump rightly emphasizes his innocence and the weaponization of our injustice system. He will be in Texas next weekend for a massive rally. Make America Great Again!’

During his 2021 election campaign, Bragg received support from a political action committee that took money from George Soros.

Color Of Change PAC, the political action committee of the nation’s largest online racial justice group, received $1 million from billionaire philanthropist Soros to support Bragg’s candidacy.

DailyMail.com revealed in February last year that the donation was later cut in half after an allegation was made against Bragg, which he strongly denied.

Soros donated the money to Color of Change PAC as part of a $40 million drive to support prosecutors’ campaigns across the country, according to a January 2023 report.

Matt Palumbo, author of The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros, said Soros’s funding was incredibly successful in achieving his goals of getting left-leaning prosecutors elected.

“He’s had a success rate of over 90% getting many of these DAs elected,” he told Fox News in January.

“I hate to use the term genius with Soros, but one of the brilliant things he realized is… if you want to make policy reform with law and order and in this case humiliate it, it’s so efficient to have an officer because you don’t have to go through a state legislature, you don’t have to go through a mayor.”

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy also criticized the investigation.

He said Saturday: “Here we go again — an outrageous abuse of power by a radical prosecutor who is letting violent criminals go as he pursues political revenge against President Trump.

“I am directing relevant committees to immediately investigate whether federal funds are being used to undermine our democracy by disrupting elections with politically motivated prosecutions.”

Legal experts have cast doubt on the success of the case against Trump.

Jonathan Turley, criminal defense attorney and Shapiro Chair of Public Interest Law at George Washington University, said, “This is a flawed case if it is based on a state indictment that effectively prosecutes federal election violation.

That federal case was dismissed by the Justice Department. There are also statute of limitations issues that may come into play.

Bragg can expect highly motivated judges and jurors in New York. However, the novelty and questions in this case would create difficult appeals for the prosecution.”

But Turley also said Trump should “tap any inflammatory rhetoric” after the former president issued a call for protest amid the impending indictments. Trump had announced he would be arrested within days, adding, “PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK!”

Trump could be charged with falsifying company records related to payments to his former attorney, Michael Cohen, who was serving jail time after pleading guilty to using campaign finance in connection with Daniels. The former president could also be charged with electoral law violations.

He would become the first former president in history to face criminal charges if indicted.

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, responded to the development on Saturday by stating that if he is indicted, Trump would be “re-elected with a landslide victory” in the 2024 presidential election. And legal experts say Trump could still be elected president even if he is indicted or convicted.

Trump could face up to four years in prison if charged.

But experts say the former president could still be reelected if charged or even convicted on the issue. Trump has already maintained that he “wouldn’t even think about leaving the race” if indicted.

The US Constitution does not say that a candidate cannot run if he has a criminal record. The prerequisites are simply that a candidate is a natural born citizen who is at least 35 years old and has lived in the US for 14 years or more.

Kate Shaw, a legal analyst and professor at the Cardozo School of Law, told me ABC“There is nothing in the Constitution that disqualifies individuals convicted of crimes from running for or serving as president.”

Any issues are likely to be practical rather than legal, Shaw said, such as jail time making campaigning “difficult, if not impossible.”