Bragg's absurd case against Trump finally gets its undeserved day in court

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

42% : The charges against Trump are a prime example of selective prosecution driven by political animus.
41% : It is well established that money paid in exchange for non-disclosure agreements (or NDAs, as they're known) is perfectly legal and quite common.
32% : It is self-evident to many that the charges against the former president would be brought against no one else not named Trump.
32% : "It is self-evident to many that the charges against the former president would be brought against no one else not named Trump.
31% : Forget the fact that the FEC investigated Trump and concluded that said payments do not constitute unlawful donations.
31% : The only credible case that Bragg could bring against Trump is falsely representing an NDA reimbursement as a payment for legal services to Cohen.
31% : Instead, he is blithely enabling the district attorney's illicit scheme to "get Trump" by ignoring fundamental rules of law, as well as his own duty to see that justice is fairly administered.
29% : Trump, however, is a disfavored Republican, so he is treated differently.
29% : It has gained in popularity, especially among media handmaidens who have happily embraced the righteous cause by declaring Trump guilty in the court of public opinion before any trial has ever begun.
28% : The ringmaster of the Big Top clown show is Alvin Bragg, the progressive Manhattan district attorney who campaigned -- unethically -- on the promise to bring down Trump.
28% : Even Bragg's predecessor, Cyrus Vance, chose not to charge Trump at the end of his years-long investigation.
27% : Instead of ruining Trump, their antics have fortified his popular support.
26% : The gravamen of the indictment is that in 2016 Trump used his lawyer to pay money to Stephanie Clifford (a.k.a.
23% : Absent an eleventh-hour reprieve from a higher court, Donald Trump will become the first U.S. president to face a criminal trial when it commences on Monday in New York.
23% : Yet, Bragg has no reservations in featuring an inveterate and confessed perjurer as his star witness against Trump.
22% : The most curious -- and corrupt -- aspect of Bragg's case is that he still has not identified what underlying crime Trump supposedly committed.
21% : Okay, but under what law exactly?In his malign indictment, the DA vaguely accuses Trump of "violating election laws" without specifying which ones were transgressed.
11% : However, Bragg is insistent that since Trump's then-attorney, Michael Cohen, pled guilty to a federal charge of making an illegal campaign contribution, then that somehow makes Trump guilty, too.

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