As the pressure mounts surrounding the widely expected Manhattan indictment against scandal-ridden former President Donald Trump, Rolling Stone is out with new reporting that confirms the ex-president’s legal team is already warning him — be prepared to lose if you go up against Alvin Bragg.
Two inside sources have spoken with the publication and say that more than one of Donald Trump’s own lawyers have tried to make it very clear to him that if the Manhattan district attorney does formally charge him in the infamous hush money case, Trump should be fully prepared to lose that case in court.
Trump World as a whole is apparently of the belief that it would be nearly impossible to secure a truly impartial jury to hear the case involving the infamous alleged 2016 payments Trump is said to have ordered his then-personal attorney and self-described “fixer” Michael Cohen to make to adult film star and alleged former Trump affair partner, Stormy Daniels, in an effort to buy the entertainer’s silence in the weeks ahead of the 2016 presidential election that Donald Trump would go on to win. Instead, according to the report, the former president’s legal team has advised him to only rely on an appeal to clear him of his now-hypothetical charges.
One source told Rolling Stone, “The [former] president is more confident in his chances [than others are], but when some of us have brought this [idea of counting on an appeal] up to him … it seemed like he believed we had a good point.”
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Following reporting on leaks from DA Bragg’s office, it has been all but determined that the issue of a formal Trump indictment is now only a matter of when, not if. Trump himself has been reacting rather badly to these developments, even going so far as to prematurely and dramatically claim this past weekend that he would be arrested on Tuesday of this week and has since spent almost every single day inciting his supporters into what feels like Insurrection Part II.
Rolling Stone reports:
But if the case indeed goes to trial, Trump’s allies have already telegraphed that their plans to assail the prosecution as politically motivated, and even to allege that the city of New York itself is out to put the screws to Trump. The former president is also prone to hurling wild allegations at Bragg, such as bizarrely calling the DA ‘racist’ for investigating him.
Prosecutors with experience in New York don’t find the argument persuasive.”
Read the full report here.
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