Prosecutors in the Manhattan District Attorney’s office are proposing a four-year hold on sentencing President-elect Donald Trump in the highly criticized business records case, which many legal minds have argued was politically motivated from its inception. Trump’s transition team is touting victory.
Steven Cheung, Trump’s incoming White House communications director, quickly issued a statement saying this move by prosecutors marks a “victory for President Trump,” adding that the effort to dismiss the convictions in the case continues. A source close to Trump’s legal team told Breitbart News on the condition of anonymity that the “case is effectively dead.”
On one hand, perhaps Merchan could see the handwriting on the wall. This lawfare was election interference and it failed. Trump was elected to a second term in a modern landslide, with unified government. This prosecution was and is unlawful and so are the convictions, and this pause could be the first step in landing the plane. Bragg and Merchan have been beaten, and they should know it.
That route is to remove this prosecution to federal court under 28 U.S.C. § 1442. While the facts alleged against Trump in the charge are for a time before he was president — 2016, specifically — some of the evidence introduced against him is from his time the White House, courtesy of disgraced convicted criminal liar Michael Cohen.