were unable to complete ou work given the restraints identified earlier covid, supreme court litigation, stand down requests from fello prosecutors. obviously, you can predic what a judge would do, o whether they would be conviction i know you want to either of those things but is it conceivable that donald trump could serve tim in prison for this indictment? conceivable, yes but i wouldn t necessarily think that is the likely outcome, simply because it i the lowest level felony, it ha a maximum prison sentence of four years, and a minimu prison sentence of no time of literally just a probatio or non carson rhetorical restrictions and typically, someone without any criminal record would no be sentenced, typically, t incarceration if they were convicted of an e level felony
understand. when brag started, he suggeste that the case was not ready. do you believe that is true an what specifically can you tell us about the strength of the evidence that you handed off because you did a lot of wor before you left office, even i there was not an indictmen issue. i brought mark pomerant into the office in 2021. i think very highly of mark an fought very highly of march. and, ultimately, as what mr. bragg had said, ultimately, mr bragg decided that information and the case that mark was presenting him after i left in january of 2022 was not a case he felt comfortable goin forward on at that time. and that is his prerogative as the district attorney, just as it was my prerogative when i was distracted tierney t pursue evidence and further se of an indictment that i felt
means that it is an issue that needs to be decided by the core and that is the challenge when you are charging the president of bringing a charge where the law is perhaps unsettled aside from the hush money case you spent a lot of time in a lot of progress focused o the trump organization finances, trump s own finances, when you left office did you feel there was a viable financial fraud case to be made against trum personally, and could that b in terms of people expectations as separate indictment from brag on that case well, by the way, on that point, i am not sure what distric attorney bragg has done sinc leaving office, nor should i he - whatever indictment he bring out tuesday does not mean that that is the end of the investigation, superseding indictments and state court ar
the republican party i congress has become this cul around his personality, and is dreading any devotion at onc at the rule of law governor ron desantis another leading republican, wh also use some similar language and calling the indictment the weaponization of the legal system we saw that language over an over again in the responses of a number of republicans. he also called alvin bragg a soros back to manhatta prosecutor what did that statement say to you about ron desantis it says that ron desantis will do anything it also says a lot about the state of the gop, which is you have to attack the justice system you have to speculate abou motives, you have to assume th worst. and in the statement, as, well you have to disregard the law. say won t extradite someon accused of a crime in order to be competitive wit the republican primary he goes beyond that, and tries