After Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg indicted former President Donal Trump on 34 felony charges on Tuesday, a video of a roundtable discussion hosted at Harvard University in November featuring several progressive prosecutors resurfaced and is going viral.

The roundtable discussion, titled “Change from Within: A New Vision for the 21st Century Prosecutor,” featured several left-wing extremist prosecutors from around the country and focused on strategies for fundamentally reforming the justice system from within.

Bragg, whose campaign was financed, in part, by Marxist billionaire George Soros, was supposed to attend the panel but withdrew last minute due to developments in “an important case in Manhattan involving the Trump Organization,” according to the moderator. The announcement elicited broad smiles from the other members of the panel.

Bragg has generated criticism come from various quarters, including New York’s Democratic Mayor, Eric Adams, who has questioned his low conviction rate, unclear prosecutorial priorities, and relaxed approach to law enforcement.

After Bragg’s first year in office, “major crime” rose by 22 percent in New York City, and some critics have argued that activist prosecutors in major cities across the country are contributing to a significant increase in crime. However, Bragg’s fellow panelists at the Harvard discussion were unambiguous about the underlying motivation behind their policies.

“I went to law school because I wanted to dismantle the criminal legal system, and thought that that’s the best way to do it,” Sarah George, State’s Attorney for Chittenden County, Vermont, said during the roundtable.

During a conversation, George shared that she had aspired to become a defense attorney initially. However, while pursuing her master’s degree in forensic psychology, she realized that becoming a prosecutor and entering politics would be the most effective way to address the “injustices in our justice system.”  She further revealed that after her election, she terminated prosecutors who she claimed “were harming our community” and replaced them with attorneys who supported “doing things differently.”

Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez, who leads one of the largest DA offices in the country and supervises approximately 550 prosecutors, was equally clear in expressing his views on law enforcement, the Daily Wire noted.

“The most powerful thing that prosecutors, elected prosecutors, can do is not charge everybody,” Gonzalez said. “I will refuse to prosecute certain cases, and I will turn the person who’s been arrested back over to the community for programming and therapy.”

Gonzalez expressed his support for reducing the use of incarceration and cash bail as much as possible.

“The practice had always been to ask for the maximum period [of parole],” Gonzalez said. “The practice became to ask for the minimum unless there was a reason to do otherwise. Same thing for bail. It was the practice of our office to ask for bail on virtually every case, and I changed the practice to say that if you are going to ask for bail, you need to get a supervisor’s permission.”

The DW also noted that Gonzalez also rescinded all letters from the Brooklyn District attorneys from the last several decades opposing inmates’ parole.

Critics pounded the liberal DAs.

“Besides describing themselves as so-called progressive prosecutors, the one thing that all of these district and state attorneys have in common is they seek to reimagine the role of the district attorney to the point where they undermine duly enacted laws passed by their respective state legislatures,” Jonathan Hullihan, deputy general counsel for Citizens Defending Freedom, noted.

“This not only undermines the entire criminal justice system and places the progressivism above public safety, but also the separation of powers, and often the Constitutional oath of office required by public officials,” he added.

Many have questioned Bragg’s decision to upgrade Trump’s charges from a misdemeanor to a felony and circumvent the statute of limitations by employing a novel legal theory. Bragg argues that the falsification was committed to cover up federal campaign finance violations, which are outside his jurisdiction.

However, given that Bragg has downgraded more than half of all felony charges, including armed robbery, to misdemeanors, some have criticized his seemingly political motivation in pursuing Trump’s case with an uncharacteristically harsh approach, the DW added.