ESPN's Stephen A. Smith on Monday criticized Democratic Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg for wasting “tax dollars” to protect President-elect Donald Trump's conviction.
Mr. Bragg, December 9th Opposition According to MSNBC legal correspondent Lisa Rubin, in response to Trump's motion to dismiss the case, Judge Juan Melchán indicated that he may accept a reduced sentence. Sentence reduction is a legal mechanism typically used “when the defendant dies between conviction and sentencing,” he said. Smith, “Stephen A. Smith Show” and characterized Mr. Bragg's proposal as a pathetic attempt to uphold his own conviction against Mr. Trump rather than a responsible use of taxpayer resources. (Related: Judge grants Jack Smith's request to halt all deadlines in Trump lawsuits after election victory)
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“Lawyer Bragg from New York is trying to convince judges and courts to treat Donald Trump as if he were dead so that your convictions for these 34 felonies remain part of your record. When you look at , if that's the word, it just shows another level of pathos creeping in,” Smith said. “Once again, we cannot let this go. He is the next president of the United States.”
Trump was found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records to reimburse former lawyer Michael Cohen for a non-disclosure agreement with porn actress Stormy Daniels.
“And on January 20th, he becomes president of the United States, and you want to sit here and waste taxpayers' money and literally go to court and do everything you can to get his conviction on the record. “There will be no prison sentence,” he continued. “You won't be able to lock him up. You won't be able to fine him. Doctor, it's over. It's over. Democrats, it's over. It's over.”
Rubin said on December 10 that he was surprised by the lengths to which Bragg was working to uphold Trump's May guilty verdict, saying that the proposed commutation was “basically a not guilty verdict” without sentencing the defendant. “It removes presumptions,” he said.
“They think it's an OK solution here. This shows how far they've gone to uphold the jury verdict. that they consider to be fundamental to the constitutional values of the United States,” Rubin said.
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