'Very boring': Rev. Al Sharpton laughs at reason Alvin Bragg isn't a good target for Trump
Donald Trump has spent much of the past few years attacking prosecutors, judges or anyone else involved in court cases against him but, according to Rev. Al Sharpton, he won't have much ammunition when it comes to hush money prosecutor Alvin Bragg.
Nicolle Wallace began the conversation on MSNBC Friday with questions about jury selection, which begins Monday in the criminal case.
She then played a clip of Manhattan District Attorney Bragg being interviewed by Sharpton in March, saying, "He's not the right person for Trump to rail against the way he rails against the DOJ and Merrick Garland and President Biden."
The clip showed Bragg saying he was not interested in pundits or celebrities. Instead, he said, "Our focus is on the evidence and the law. ... We follow the facts."
After the clip, she said, "This is a very inconvenient nemesis for him, he's almost — I say this with admiration — boring, legally."
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Laughing, Sharpton agreed.
"He is, I will say also with admiration, very boring," he said.
"I have known Alvin Bragg since he was running. He's a Sunday schoolteacher. He's a home guy. He's straight down the middle. We had him at our Action Network convention. He said, 'I'm coming, but I'm not going to talk about Trump.'"
He went on to say that the other problem Trump will have is that he can't play the victim card in this case because Michael Cohen, Trump's former lawyer and a key prosecution witness, no doubt suffered more because he went to jail for him already.
"When Al Bragg's prosecutor stands up and says, people do get jammed by the system wrongly, and let me give you an example: one guy was Michael Cohen," Sharpton said.
He added that, if Trump plays the victim card, it's ironic that he'll be sitting in the same courthouse at which the "Exonerated Five" were wrongly convicted of attacking a woman in Central Park — men that Trump wanted executed.
"Those five guys went to jail and sat in the same building Donald Trump will be sitting in Monday," Sharpton continued. "So, the irony of that is that I almost hope they talk about victimization because they can bring in how Donald Trump was on the side of people that were falsely accused. Michael Cohen went to jail for something that — and Donald Trump has not been brought to justice. So, if that's their line of defense, they can start getting ready to take the van to Rikers Island now."
New York Times political reporter Nick Confessore explained that Trump also has a messaging problem with this case that he doesn't in others.
"The crime alleged is something that I think even a lot of supporters of Donald Trump would not have trouble believing was happening. It's been corroborated in other contexts. The motive: catch and kill. This is the means by which Donald Trump gets rid of problems," he said.
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