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I find it hard to imagine Trump can get a fair trial in Manhattan, and the odds before D.A. Bragg and the judge start tossing prospective jurors aren\u2019t great. Overall in New York City four years ago Biden received 2,321,759 votes, 76%, to Trump\u2019s 691,682 votes, or 23%. Hillary Clinton 79% did better, winning 79% of the vote in Gotham to Trump\u2019s 18% in 2016.<\/p>\n
Add in the riot at the Capitol on January 6, 2017 and the non-stop and one-sided campaign of vilification against Trump by the stacked and manipulative House Select Committee on January 6 \u2014the first and only such \u2018committee\u2019 in the House\u2019s history that was engineered to replicate a Kangaroo Court of the worst sort\u2014 and the potential jurors willing to head Trump\u2019s case with an open mind falls even more.<\/p>\n
Even should 34 convictions result and a significant sentence handed down. however, this soon-to-open rival of any Broadway spectacle or New York City circus holds the very real prospect of adding jet fuel to Trump\u2019s campaign, even as it did to his primary romp.<\/p>\n
\u2018Trust the people\u2019 was a saying of which Winston Churchill was very fond. It applies here. Not only will the McCarthys of the world \u2014serious former prosecutors who have never been huge fans of Trump but who also have enormous respect for the rule of law\u2014 be speaking out daily about the abuse of process here, so too will every defendant who ever felt wronged by a prosecutor be thinking that what is happening to Trump is just what happened to them. Which demographic is most often associated with overcharging and prosecutorial misconduct? African American males? NBC\u2019s Steve Kornacki has confirmed for me that Trump is always polling better with this crucial demographic in the upcoming election than any Republican since 1968.<\/p>\n
On National Public Radio\u2019s Morning Edition yesterday I pronounced myself an \u2018outlier\u2019 on the Manhattan case. I think this prosecution will almost inevitably help Trump\u2019s campaign. Contrary voices have counseled me that it will be weeks of the Access Hollywood tape recycled again and again and again, with Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels on the stand and Trump seated and unable to speak, glowering all the while. Expect a ridiculous gag order to restrict the former president. Expect a huge sentence.<\/p>\n
And expect an even bigger backlash against this abuse of the criminal justice system. Trust the people.<\/p>\n
Democrats and the Left generally wagered everything on getting Trump renominated and combing that with \u2018lawfare\u2019 to handicap him in the general election. Thus far it has got them a 9-0 thrashing in the United States Supreme Court on the Colorado Supreme Court absurd decision and the tawdry display of Fanni Willis and Nathan Wade in Georgia.<\/p>\n
\u2018The best laid plans of mice and men\u2026.\u2019 occurs to many minds. When the dust settles on Election 2024 and a former president pulls a Grover Cleveland in the 21rst century, one of the people to thank will be Alvin Bragg.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hugh Hewitt is one of the country\u2019s leading journalists of the center-right. A son of Ohio and a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Michigan Law School, Hewitt has been a Professor of Law at Chapman University\u2019s Fowler School of Law since 1996 where he teaches Constitutional Law. Hewitt launched his eponymous radio show from Los Angeles in 1990, and it is today syndicated to hundreds of stations and outlets across the country every Monday through Friday morning. Hewitt has frequently appeared on every major national news television network, hosted television shows for PBS and MSNBC, written for every major American paper, has authored a dozen books and moderated a score of Republican candidate debates, most recently the November 2023 Republican presidential debate in Miami and four Republican presidential debates in the 2015-16 cycle. Hewitt focuses his radio show and this column on the Constitution, national security, American politics and the Cleveland Browns and Guardians. Hewitt has interviewed tens of thousands of guests from Democrats Hillary Clinton and John Kerry to Republican Presidents George W. Bush and Donald Trump over his forty years in broadcast, and this column previews the lead story that will drive his radio show today.<\/p>\n\n
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