Stormy kills Bragg case

[Dill]

(05-12-2024, 04:21 PM)JustWinBaby Wrote: I think the Bragg and James case were politically motivated, and I think most objective people agree.  Both cases could have been teed up to go after the 2020 election.  On the other hand, you could argue they wouldn't have bothered getting started given Trump could have had another 4 years in 2020, so maybe the timing is just coincidental.  But like Cohen and Trump's CFO, there needn't be a "conspiracy" when the actors already know what's expected.

The documents case and election fraud seem to be going at a reasonable pace.  The GA deal didn't really even emerge until January of 2021, and the documents case was even later.  And I think those two cases are fully valid.

Curious there's still been no charges for Russian Collusion or Obstruction though....

I think the "no charges for obstruction" has been explained well enough.

But could Barr's firing of Geoffrey Berman possibly explain the "timing"? 

https://www.politifact.com/article/2024/may/08/trump-says-the-fec-saw-no-merit-in-the-stormy-dani/

https://newrepublic.com/article/180726/trump-election-interference-prosecution-doj-bill-barr

Jordan threatened Bragg with “oversight”: dragging him before his committee repeatedly, threatening him with contempt of Congress, putting a right-wing target on Bragg’s back by publicizing him to draw sharpshooters from as far as Wyoming or Idaho, and the possibility of going to jail if he didn’t answer Jordan’s questions right. He, James Comer, and Bryan Steil—three chairmen of three different committees—wrote to Bragg in March 2023:

Quote:By July 2019 ... federal prosecutors determined that no additional people would be charged alongside [Michael] Cohen.... [Y]our apparent decision to pursue criminal charges where federal authorities declined to do so requires oversight.

They were furious that Bragg would prosecute Trump for a crime that the Department of Justice had already decided and announced that it wasn’t going to pursue.

But why didn’t Bill Barr’s Department of Justice proceed after it had already put Michael Cohen in prison for a year for delivering the check to Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet, at least until after the election, and then lying about it? Why didn’t Barr’s DOJ go after the guy who allegedly ordered the check written, the guy who’d had sex with Daniels, the guy whose run for the presidency was in the balance?
Why didn’t the Department of Justice at least investigate (it has a policy against prosecuting a sitting president) the crime it put Cohen in prison for but was possibly directed by, paid for, and also committed by Donald Trump?

For one possible answer let’s turn to Geoffrey Berman, the lifelong Republican and U.S. attorney appointed by Trump to run the prosecutor’s office at the Southern District of New York. He wrote the book Holding the Line, published in September 2022, about his experiences.

In it, he came right out and accused Barr of killing the federal investigation into Trump’s role of directing and covering up that conspiracy to influence the 2016 election. Had Barr not done that, Trump could have been prosecuted in January 2021, right after he left office. And Jim Jordan couldn’t complain that Alvin Bragg was pushing a case the feds had decided wasn’t worth it.