By New York Post (Opinion) | Created at 2024-11-24 21:46:20 | Updated at 2024-11-25 00:14:26
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The Issue: DA Alvin Bragg wanting to delay President-elect Donald Trump’s sentencing to 2029.
The basis of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case against President-elect Donald Trump was that Trump illegally influenced the 2016 presidential election by keeping 32 payments to a porn star out of the public eye (“Let ’em loose Bragg . . . Won’t let Trump go,” Nov. 20).
The fact is that, earlier this year, a jury’s conviction of Trump on 34 felony counts did nothing to influence the outcome of 2024 presidential election. Trump’s landslide victory is proof that the original case doesn’t hold water.
Donathan Salkaln
Manhattan
Waiting until Trump’s presidency is over before sentencing him is tantamount to putting a noose around Trump’s neck for four years while making him stand on the gallows floor waiting for the trap door to drop. This is prosecutorial misconduct and an abuse of power, driven by a hate for Trump.
So, I have to ask you, are the people who voted for Trump in a landslide as the new president of the United States supposed sit by, knowing that office is being compromised by the Democrats?
Gregory J. Topliff
Aiken, SC
DA Bragg is nothing to brag about. New Yorkers need to wake up. It’s time to turn the cards on Bragg and force him out.
He is so worried about the threat of Trump, yet he is the master of revolving-door justice. He wrote the book on recidivism and has allowed the city to sink into the abyss.
The governor ought to show him the door, rather than focus on her congestion-pricing plans.
Ronald G. Frank
West Orange, NJ
Let’s cut to the chase with Bragg: He’s a bigger disgrace than George Gascon in Los Angeles. How foolish can Manhattanites be?
Bragg frees felons, fare-beaters, larcenists and every manner of sociopath. He’s busy going after Trump and acting the “good Samaritan.”
Jeffrey Wiesenfeld
Great Neck
It used to be said that justice delayed was justice denied. Not anymore. Nowadays, justice has all the time in the world.
Schellie Hagan
Brooklyn
Alvin Bragg’s plan to delay sentencing (of a manufactured case) would cast a pall over Trump’s presidency and provide ammunition for his detractors to tarnish his image at the very least.
It’s mind-boggling that anti-Trumpers cannot fathom that Americans saw through all the shenanigans and still handed Trump a historic win, a mandate even. All cases should be dropped.
Frank Russo
Centereach
Someone needs to remind Alvin Bragg to review judicial precedent. An unreasonable delay in sentencing can often result in a loss of jurisdiction for the court and mandates dismissal of the indictment.
As a lawyer practicing for 50 years, I have had two cases dismissed in that fashion. The Manhattan case is a joke, and if it ever gets appealed, it will end with dismissal.
Joseph DeFelice
Malverne
The Nov. 24 Post quotes Bragg’s campaign spokesman, Ritchie Fife, as saying that “Alvin Bragg is laser-focused on making Manhattan safer.”
I turn to the very next page, and there is an article about “treating young guns with kid gloves,” which details how many minors are running around the city getting arrested multiple times, only to be released to commit more crimes. How ironic.
Can Fife please explain to us what he meant by laser-focused?
Tom Vespo
Bethpage
Attention Alvin Bragg & Co.: The obsession to prosecute now-President-elect Trump on what, to me, appears to be more a misdemeanor than a felony, is one of the reasons that so many registered Democrats voted for Donald.
This seems like a witch hunt and eerily resembles tactics seen in Third World countries. This has no place in the United States of America, the land of the free.
Aura Varon
Brooklyn
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