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The unsealing of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s historic indictment of former President Donald Trump reveals a solid prosecution case. Much of the controversy over Bragg bringing the case has been disparagement of the charges as potentially being only misdemeanors, claims that the charges will be “novel” ones based on untested legal theories, and attacks on the credibility of the expected star witness Michael Cohen—who was Trump’s former fixer attorney and convicted for his role in paying the hush money to the adult film actress star Stormy Daniels.
Bragg has answered these attacks via a strategically crafted indictment.