In a rare moment of expressed camaraderie, former President Donald Trump Monday commiserated with the Manhattan prosecutor leading his criminal hush money case.
Trump took to Truth Social Monday night to draw a comparison between himself and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who charged the former president with 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up salacious stories than might have derailed his 2016 campaign.
"Wow, D.A. Alvin Bragg is an Election Denier, the exact same thing that they said about me," Trump exclaimed. "But I was right!!!"
The latter comment was likely a reference to Trump's baseless claims that the 2020 presidential election he lost to President Joe Biden was rigged.
Trump's similar claims in the lead-up to Jan. 6, 2021, will likely play a key role in two of four criminal court cases facing the former president, one in Georgia state court and the other in Washington D.C. federal court, both linked to charges of election interference.
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Trump did not elucidate the former comment, but it is markedly similar to a headline that appeared Monday morning on an editorial in the right-wing magazine National Review: "Alvin Bragg, Election Denier."
"You knew Donald Trump was going to land in a criminal trial about election denialism," writes contributing editor Andrew McCarthy. "You just didn’t know it was going to be about 2016, not 2020, and that the election denier is Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg, not Trump."
McCarthy argues business falsification charges are the kind Bragg, a "paragon progressive prosecutor," would only bring against a "political enemy."
He also argues Bragg is attempting to enforce federal campaign law on the state level and that charges should not be pursued because there are no provable victims of fraud.
"Any one of these infirmities — and I’ve just hit the main ones — should be enough to explode Bragg’s prosecution, to say nothing of all of them in concert," McCarthy concludes. "But in focusing on the trees, we miss the forest: Alvin Bragg is an election denier."
Trump has pleaded not guilty to the charges levied against him in New York, Georgia, Washington D.C. and Florida.
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