amongst other things, having a tax issue separate from donald trump where he was involved in that scheme to defraud. he s someone who is not they can t embrace. alvin bragg said he couldn t envision a world where he would bring a case based on the world of michael cohen. he s changed his tune because he s succumbed to political pressure. it s a sad day. i can t tell you how upset i feel based on the fact that in my 32 years as a lawyer and practiced as a prosecutor and defense lawyer, i have never seen anything close to this level of abuse, of process and abuse of prosecutorial discretion. makes me sick to my stomach. sean: let me quote the new york times. liberals like the new york times. february 13, 2018, talking this is a quote from michael cohen. i am mr. trump s long-time special counsel, i proudly
right. they want to go home and look themselves in the mirror. michael cohen has the credibility of a pipe cleaner. he s somebody that no one can rest a case on. alvin bragg said previously based on one of his assistant prosecutors own comments, that this guy acts like he s a movie star. he s a felon bankrupt, a convicted liar and a purgerer. he couldn t say great things about donald trump every time he got in front of a camera. he couldn t way to say how great he was. now he s trying to write a book and get his book sold. putting him aside for a second, bob costello has no axe to grind here. that was his former client. he said this guy is making up tales and telling stories. one thing he did, michael cohen, aside from pleading guilty to various lies and admitting to lying before congress and
know has been weaponized. we have now criminalized political differences. somebody should tell alvin bragg that this is called persecution, not prosecution. alvin bragg has given violent felons the best deals imaginable. senator rand paul is now calling for bragg to be locked up. a trump indictment would be a disgusting abuse of power, and the d.a. should be put in jail. think about this. bragg is dedicating valuable time, limited time, resources, millions of taxpayer dollars to prosecute a cooked up misdemeanor case involving donald trump all while giving actual violent criminals a free pass. in his first memo, he instructed his staff to seek misdemeanor charges for perpetrators accused of armed robbery so long as nobody was seriously injured. it s not just armed robbery. under bragg, 52% of all felony cases get reduced to misdemeanors and of the felony
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2016, i used my own personal funds to facilitate a payment of $130,000 to miss stephanie clifford, aka stormy daniels, neither the trump organization for the trump campaign was a party to this transaction to the payment of miss clifford. it was lawful, it was not a campaign contribution or a campaign expenditure by anyone. now alvin bragg is trying to prove the opposite with a different story from cohen. not only is the d.a. relying on an unreliable dishonest star witness with conflicting statements, but he s also attempting to do something without any legal precedent. bragg is trying to take a misdemeanor, two years outside the statute of limitations and upgrade this to a low level felony likely also out of the statute of limitations using a novel legal theory surrounding a new york campaign finance law and it was referred to as a zombie case because it keeps