Former FEC Commissioner Takes Down Bragg For ‘Extremely Dubious Prosecution’ Of Donald Trump

A former Federal Election Commission (FEC) official and the current director of The Heritage Foundation’s Election Law Reform Initiative, Hans Von Spakovsky, did a detailed takedown of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case in an interview with Just the News. The FEC is “the independent regulatory agency charged with administering and enforcing the federal campaign finance law.” Mr. Von Spakovsky, in the interview, called the case against Trump “an extremely dubious prosecution, and I say that as a former commissioner on the Federal Election Commission.”

Mr. Von Spakovsky emphasized that Bragg has no real jurisdiction to bring his lawsuit given that Bragg, a local state prosecutor, could not go after Trump on federal charges. He said that “No local state prosecutor has the authority to enforce federal campaign finance crimes in the first place. There’s just nothing from a factual and legal standpoint to this case. But I don’t think this prosecutor cares about that. What he’s counting on is that he’s in Manhattan. Manhattan is one of the most liberal jurisdictions in the country. I think he believes that he can get a liberal jury to convict Trump, no matter what the facts are and no matter what the law is.”

Being that it is a political prosecution in a politically adverse district to Trump that will, in all likelihood, produce a jury adverse to Trump, the former president should, according to Von Spakovsky, seek remedy elsewhere. “He [Trump] can appeal [in the event of a guilty verdict] and try to convince an appellate court that this was everything from a malicious prosecution to the fact that it wasn’t actually a violation of the law” proclaimed Von Spakovsky.

“A lot of this is going to depend on the judges and the tenure of the judges in the state court system. And I think that’s what Bragg is counting on, because his case is so weak, so nonexistent, that even folks on the left side of the political aisle — including prosecutors — have all basically said there’s just nothing to this case” he added.

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Von Spakovsky commented that Bragg’s motivation here is plain and that it is politics, not the law that motivates him. Von Spakovsky decried that “I think this is very personal to Alvin Bragg. In other words, I think he is a politically ambitious local DA, and he thinks that this will make him a hero with the Democratic Party and liberal organizations all over the country and that it will enhance his future political career.”

Mr. Von Spakovsky reiterated that Bragg had no case and no law appears to have been broken by Mr. Trump. Von Spakovsky declared that “It’s perfectly legitimate to pay a settlement [in reference to the payment to Stormy Daniels]. It’s perfectly legitimate to have a nondisclosure agreement [with Stormy Daniels]. And Bragg’s multiplying that into 34 accounts, that in itself shows a lack of credibility. When prosecutors take a single incident, or two incidents and turn it into three dozen supposed violations of the law, that’s a sure sign that the prosecutor doesn’t have a case and is trying to overwhelm the jury.”

As Just the News noted, Mr. Bragg’s office did not avail themselves the opportunity to respond to what Von Spakovsky detailed. If this is indeed “[d]elivering one standard of justice for all”, which the DA office’s Twitter page declares is the mission statement of their office, then this standard is rather poor. Naturally though, as experience has shown, it is not one standard that the District Attorney’s office is bent on delivering.