{"id":2256166,"date":"2024-05-30T19:57:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T23:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-guilty-manhattan-district-attorney-alvin-bragg-says-he-did-his-job\/"},"modified":"2024-05-30T20:01:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T00:01:03","slug":"trump-guilty-manhattan-district-attorney-alvin-bragg-says-he-did-his-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-guilty-manhattan-district-attorney-alvin-bragg-says-he-did-his-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump found guilty: Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg confirms he upheld the law"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-guilty-manhattan-district-attorney-alvin-bragg-says-he-did-his-job%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2256166&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg successfully secured \u2064guilty verdicts\u200d against former President Donald Trump, marking a historic moment as the first\u200b prosecutor to convict a former president. Bragg&#8217;s unbiased \u200dpursuit of facts without favor showcased a dedicated legal approach. Despite Trump&#8217;s objections and claims of unfairness, the verdict stands\u2063 as a significant milestone \u2062in legal history. \u200dManhattan\u200c DA Alvin Bragg&#8217;s achievement\u2062 of securing guilty verdicts against ex-President\u2064 Donald Trump\u200d is a historic milestone, making him the first prosecutor to\u2063 convict a former president. Bragg&#8217;s impartial commitment to uncovering facts without bias exemplifies a diligent legal methodology. Despite Trump&#8217;s protests of injustice, the verdict remains a momentous event in legal annals.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/alvin-bragg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg\">Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg<\/a> said Thursday he \u201cdid his job\u201d in securing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3023322\/trump-guilty-sentenced-four-days-before-rnc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg\">guilty verdicts<\/a> against former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg\">President Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur job is to follow the facts without fear or favor, and that\u2019s what we did here,\u201d he said at a press conference.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg speaks to the media after a jury found former President Donald Trump guilty of 34 felony counts of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/are-the-charges-brought-against-the-trump-organizations-cfo-part-of-a-witch-hunt-experts-weigh-in\/\" title=\"Are The Charges Brought Against The Trump Organization\u2019s CFO Part Of A Witch Hunt? Experts Weigh In\">falsifying business records<\/a>, Thursday, May 30, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo\/Seth Wenig)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bragg is the first prosecutor in U.S.\u00a0history to convict a former president, capping off a risky yearlong legal approach to a complicated case. He declined to comment on whether his office would seek a prison sentence, adding the case against Trump was \u201congoing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bragg, who was in the courtroom when a 12-person New York jury found Trump guilty of\u00a034 felony counts, did not show any emotion when the verdict\u00a0was read, according to reporters present. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3018093\/trump-guilty-in-manhattan-hush-money-case\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TRUMP GUILTY IN MANHATTAN HUSH MONEY CASE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile this defendant may be unlike any other in American history, we arrived at this trial, and ultimately at this verdict, in the same manner as every other case that comes through the courthouse doors: by following the facts and the law without fear or favor,\u201d he posted on X.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<blockquote data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWhile this defendant may be unlike any other in American history, we arrived at this trial, and ultimately at this verdict, in the same manner as every other case that comes through the courthouse doors: by following the facts and the law without fear or favor.\u201d \u2013 D.A. Bragg. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IguT2Z5Afx\">pic.twitter.com\/IguT2Z5Afx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alvin Bragg (@ManhattanDA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ManhattanDA\/status\/1796313529462788491?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 30, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The verdict over what\u2019s essentially an accurate recordkeeping case is an enormous win\u00a0for Bragg. <br \/>Trump, the presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/secy-pompeo-calls-for-release-of-chinese-citizen-journalist\/\" title=\"Secy. Pompeo calls for release of Chinese citizen journalist\">found guilty<\/a> of falsifying\u00a0business records in a case stemming from a payment to silence a porn star. <\/p>\n<p>Trump has slammed Bragg ever since his office brought the first indictment against him in April 2023. Three other felony indictments against the former president were returned in Florida, Georgia, and Washington, D.C. <\/p>\n<p>Following the verdict, Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3023171\/trumps-calls-guilty-verdict-disgrace-real-verdict-election-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"ticked off a list of complaints\">ticked off a list of complaints<\/a> that he claimed prevented him from having a fair trial, which included allegations that Bragg brought the case against him as an effort to keep him out of the White House. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe real verdict is going to be Nov. 5, by the people,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>Republican lawmakers in both the House and Senate also denounced the guilty verdict, calling the case weak and politically\u00a0motivated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s verdict shows how corrupt and rigged the American justice system has become under Joe Biden,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3023260\/gop-lawmakers-decry-trump-guilty-verdict\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"House GOP Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) said\">House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) said<\/a> in a statement. \u201cThe facts are clear: this was a zombie case brought forward by Joe Biden\u2019s allies in a desperate attempt to save Biden\u2019s failing campaign and the verdict hinged on the testimony of a convicted felon who was disbarred for lying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The stakes were high for both Trump and Bragg because the trial will likely be the only criminal prosecution pending against the former president before November\u2019s election. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER \">CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause it\u2019s the first and maybe the only one we\u2019ll see, the Manhattan case, clearly the weakest of the four <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/let-us-prey-how-a-christian-suicide-bomber-exposed-muslims-faking-conversions-to-avoid-deportation\/\" title=\"Let Us Prey? How A \u2018Christian\u2019 Suicide Bomber Exposed Muslims Faking Conversions To Avoid Deportation\">criminal cases brought<\/a> against Trump, became a symbol of all of the criminal cases that Trump faces,\u201d MSNBC columnist Jessica Levinson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/opinion\/msnbc-opinion\/trump-guilty-hush-money-trial-verdict-alvin-bragg-rcna153628\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"wrote\">wrote<\/a> following the verdict.\u00a0\u201cLike some grotesque legal version of Frankenstein\u2019s monster, the case morphed into an amalgamation of all of the cases pending against Trump. It was at once, according to prosecutors, a documents case and an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-deranged-sounding-georgia-grand-jury-foreman-throws-election-case-against-trump-into-legal-jeopardy\/\" title=\"WATCH: Deranged-Sounding Georgia Grand Jury Foreman Throws Election Case Against Trump Into Legal Jeopardy\">election interference case<\/a>.\u00a0 But one case should never have been seen as a referendum on whether the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-trump-please-pardon-jon-woods-a-victim-of-process-crimes-like-michael-flynn\/\" title=\"President Trump, Please Pardon Jon Woods, a Victim of Process Crimes Like Michael Flynn\">criminal justice system<\/a> can hold Trump to account.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bragg,\u00a0a Harvard Law School graduate who\u00a0worked in the New York attorney general\u2019s office as a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York, said while there were \u201cmany voices out there\u201d commenting on the case, \u201cthe only voice that\u00a0matters is the voice of the jury, and the jury has spoken.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg confirmed he upheld the law by securing guilty verdicts against ex-President Trump. &#8220;Our duty is to follow the facts impartially, and we did just that,&#8221; he stated at a press briefing. DA Bragg addressed the media post-jury decision, emphasizing the importance of unbiased fact-finding in their work<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2646,"featured_media":2256167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP24151828966871.jpeg.optimal.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2256166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP24151828966871.jpeg.optimal.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2646"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2256166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2256167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2256166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2256166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2256166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}