Alvin Bragg knew he was behind the eight ball.
But Bragg had no choice but to wave the white flag.
And all hell broke loose with this massive defeat.
Judge Juan Merchan agreed to delay Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York City by at least 30 days.
The trial was set to begin on March 25th, but on March 4th, the Southern District of New York finally turned over 73,000 pages of documents which included 172 pages of witness testimony to Donald Trump’s defense lawyers.
Trump’s lawyers motioned for a 90-day delay so they could dig through the new evidence and for the Supreme Court to deliver its ruling on Trump’s claim of Presidential immunity.
“President Donald J. Trump respectfully submits this motion (1) for an adjournment of the trial pending review of the scope of the presidential immunity doctrine in Trump v. United States, which the Supreme Court agreed to hear on February 28, 2024, and is scheduled to be argued before the Court on April 25, 2024; and (2) to preclude evidence of President Trump’s official acts at trial based on presidential immunity,” Trump’s motion read.
The documents contain blockbuster evidence that Trump’s lawyers believe proves his innocence in this politically motivated sham trial.
“The evidence includes records about former Trump lawyer-turned-prosecution witness Michael Cohen that are ‘exculpatory and favorable to the defense,’ Trump’s lawyers said. Prosecutors said most of the newly turned over material is ‘largely irrelevant to the subject matter of this case,’ though some records are pertinent,” the Associated Press reports.
Bragg had no choice but to beat a retreat and say his office was okay with a 30 day delay, writing to Judge Merchan that, “although the People are prepared to proceed to trial on March 25, we do not oppose an adjournment in an abundance of caution and to ensure that defendant has sufficient time to review the new materials.”
The federal investigation into Cohen is key to Trump’s defense.
Bragg charged Trump with falsifying business records to hide reimbursing Cohen for paying Stormy Daniels $130,000 in a nondisclosure settlement agreement in October 2016 by listing the payment to Cohen as being a legal retainer fee.
Bragg claims this represented an illegal campaign contribution.
This is vital because Bragg needed to prove Trump falsified business records to cover up another crime in order to boost a misdemeanor charge – where the statute of limitations expired – into a felony that Bragg could bring to trial.
But the Biden Justice Department investigated this charge and declined to indict Trump for violating federal campaign finance law.
That’s because Donald Trump committed no crime.
Federal campaign finance law allows candidates to do virtually anything they want with their own money as long as they’re expenses they would make during the normal course of their lives.
Documents and witness testimony detailing why prosecutors concluded Trump didn’t violate the law or that would undercut Cohen’s credibility – he’s Bragg’s star witness – would torpedo Bragg’s case.
This delay puts it within the realm of possibility that Donald Trump faces no criminal trials before the election.
And that’s a disaster for Joe Biden with polls showing his only chance of winning the 2024 election rests on one of his Democrat prosecutors winning a conviction against Trump in one of the rigged show trials they set up for Trump.
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