Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s “hush money” case against President Donald Trump is “meritless” and based on “dubious claims,” a top legal expert has warned.
Bragg’s case against Trump is viewed by many as one of the weakest cases that the 45th president faces.
According to a recent Newsweek opinion editorial written by Brooke Rollins of the America First Policy Institute, Bragg’s running nothing short of a “show trial.”
The merits of the politically motivated case are “non-existent,” Rollins argues.
Trump faces 34 charges in the “hush money” case involving former adult film actress Stormy Daniels.
Many legal scholars have explained that the charges brought against Trump, which the DOJ did not previously pursue, are a stretch, at best.
The situation is leading many to conclude that the case against Trump is political in nature.
Rollins picks Bragg’s case apart in her op-ed.
She notes that she believes George Soros-funded Bragg is a “partisan prosecutor.”
In the op-ed, Rollins writes:
“Partisan prosecutor Alvin Bragg, more showman than lawman, alleges that a 2016 transaction from the Trump Organization was deceptively categorized in its accounting.”
She added, “Even if that dubious claim were true, it is only a misdemeanor offense whose