A lot of Donald Trump's legal problems vanished when he won the presidency, but one Trump prosecutor isn't backing down, a legal expert said Wednesday.
Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance raised the discussion, pointing to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's recent legal filing indicating that he isn’t ready to let Trump off the hook in his fraud case involving hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels.
“There are no grounds for such relief now, prior to defendant’s inauguration, because President-elect immunity does not exist,” Bragg’s office wrote in the 82-page filing urging Judge Juan Merchan to reject Trump’s request.
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According to Vance, "Bragg made it clear he had no intention of going quietly."
"No obedience in advance from the office that obtained the only criminal conviction against Donald Trump before his election win ran out the clock on the three other criminal cases against him," the former prosecutor wrote.
Vance continued:
"After delays to assess Trump’s claim that the case should be dismissed or at least he could not be sentenced because he was about to assume the presidency, the District Attorney flatly rejected Trump’s argument that the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling impacts their case and asked Judge Juan Merchan to proceed to sentencing."
She then added, "Nothing, the DA writes, prevents Trump from being sentenced before the inauguration."
Vance also encouraged readers to use Bragg as an inspiration.
"The Manhattan district attorney is not powerful outside of his own jurisdiction. He has little to bring to bear against the president of the United States. But Alvin Bragg, who won a hard-fought conviction, stood up for it today and stood up for it against Donald Trump," the ex-prosecutor wrote. "His courage should inspire us. It is a measure of the courage we are all capable of. We do not have to accept Donald Trump and the demise of the rule of law as inevitable."
