Trump officials have recently celebrated that the case brought against the president-elect Manhattan District Attorney Alivn Bragg is “effectively over” after new developments. After Bragg recently requested a stay on the case until 2029, team Trump has declared a “major victory,” claiming New York v. Trump is done. Trump’s lawyers have also moved to have the case dismissed entirely.
However, reports indicate that prosecutors are most likely going to oppose the argument presented by Trump’s legal team to outright dismiss the case. “Prosecutors are trying to save face,” according to one Trump official. Regardless, the expressed confidence that the case would be dismissed. “They know this case will soon be thrown out.” Another Trump official called out the five-year delay on the case, asserting, “No serious person believes this case will withstand that.”
Trump spokesman Steven Cheung, who was recently selected to serve as the incoming White House communications director, maintained that Bragg’s “witch hunt” against the president-elect cannot continue. “The Manhattan DA has conceded that this Witch Hunt cannot continue. The lawless case is now stayed, and President Trump’s legal team is moving to get it dismissed once and for all,” he said.Another person familiar with the matter slammed the Bragg ordering the stay on the case, represents a “total failure” in the prosecution. “Their case is in shambles and now everyone knows it is on its way to the ash heap of history. This thing is not coming back in five years — no one would argue it is,” the anonymous source said. They continued, “This case is effectively over. It is a major victory for President Trump.”
Trump attorney Todd Blanche also argued that “official-acts evidence” that Bragg brought before the grand jury “contravened the holding in Trump because Presidents ‘cannot be indicted based on conduct for which they are immune from prosecution.” Blanche maintained, “The Presidential immunity doctrine recognized in Trump pertains to all ‘criminal proceedings,’ including grand jury proceedings when a prosecutor ‘seeks to charge’ a former President using evidence of official acts.”
