Jonathan Turley Pours Cold Water On DA Bragg After Trump Guilty Verdict

Jonathan Turley Pours Cold Water On DA Bragg After Trump Guilty Verdict


Georgetown University law school professor and legal expert Jonathan Turley tempered Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s conviction of former President Donald Trump after the jury in his hush money trial announced guilty verdicts for all 34 counts on Thursday.

“Jonathan, that line, I’m sure we’re going to hear it — no one is above the law. It is powerful. It is true. And there just are questions about whether this case in the way it was tried and the way that the judge dealt with it was fair to both sides,” Fox News anchor Bret Baier said to begin a show segment following the verdict.

“I think there is going to be lasting questions to that effect. The law here was being written as the trial unfolded. You have a case that even people on other networks have admitted would never have been brought against anyone but Trump,” Turley began.

“In fact, had you another analyst on another network saying that they would never be able to secure a conviction outside of Manhattan,” he opined. “I think that’s part of what really undermines the legitimacy of this verdict. It fulfills the narrative that the former president has been stating for years that there is this weaponization of the legal system. I happen to think that that’s accurate here. We can talk about the other cases.

“But this is a manufactured criminal case that zapped a dead misdemeanor into life. And converted into 34 felony counts. And I just looked at the jury verdict. There is no indication that I saw of what the second crime was. So I still don’t know what the president was convicted of,” Turley noted further.

“They were unanimous in saying that a second crime was committed and that these records — that’s these falsified documents were furthering that unlawful means. They just don’t say what each of them concluded really was that second offense. That’s going to be a problem on appeal because you’re supposed to be unanimous,” he added.


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