Trump Dealt Loss in Alvin Bragg Hush Money Case

The only victories that Donald Trump has had in the courts have been very small and usually temporary.

When it comes to consequential rulings, Trump is batting .000 for his election fraud, civil, and federal cases.

Trump can now notch another loss in the federal column because the Alving Bragg case will not be tossed, as Trump’s attorneys had requested.

Moving Forward

Trump has said from the outset that the cases brought against him amount to election interference.

He has held that because he is a presidential candidate, all of these cases should be put on hold, but the courts have not taken the bait.

Judge Juan Manuel Merchan dismissed the idea that the hush money case brought by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg should be delayed merely because Trump is on the campaign trail.

Judge Merchan actually gloated over the fact that Trump’s election interference case has been put on hold due to his immunity case that is now before the Supreme Court.

That case was supposed to start on March 4, but Judge Chutkan slammed the brakes on the case with the immunity claim being litigated.

To that point, Judge Merchan stated, “I’m glad I took that position because here we are — the D.C. case did not go forward.”

Trump’s attorneys went nuclear, stating, “We strenuously object to what is happening in this courtroom.

“The fact that we are now going to spend, President Trump is now going to spend, the next two months working on this trial instead of out of on the campaign trail running for president is something that should not happen in this country.”

Trump’s legal team should have come up with a better argument because the claim of election interference is ludicrous.

By their argument, someone could commit murder, then announce they are running for the presidency to avoid being tried in criminal court. The fact that Trump is running for the presidency is irrelevant at this point in terms of the court cases.

Having said that, it was quite suspicious how all of these cases were delayed, then stacked up during the election season.

Trump’s attorneys should have pursued the angle of it being a coordinated effort by the DOJ and prosecutors to purposely load him up during the campaign schedule, but they were never able to make that case.

This is a very tough stretch for Trump, as he is also about to have the Supreme Court decide on whether it should stay the lower court decision regarding immunity.

However, even if the court stays that decision, it will only be temporary until the Supreme Court hears arguments to formally settle this issue.

If the court rules that Trump’s actions on January 6 were not part of his presidential duties, he will be forced to go to court in all of these federal cases where he has claimed he should have immunity (the Bragg case would not be impacted regardless).