Former President Donald Trump, talks reporters April 16, 2024, while visiting a New York bodega whose owner was attacked last year. The Manhattan district attorney’s investigation into Trump’s business records began before Joe Biden was president. By the time Trump was charged in 2023, Biden was president.
of falsifying business records to cover up a $130,000 payment to Daniels made through Trump’s then-attorney Michael Cohen. Federal prosecutors could not charge Trump then because of the Justice Department’s policy not to bring criminal charges against a sitting president, In earlier versions of this statement, Trump highlighted a Biden link in one of the attorneys Bragg hired to work the case.
Multiple lawyers told us it’s unsurprising that Bragg would hire Colangelo, a longtime prosecutor with experience investigating Trump. Prosecutors commonly move between jobs at federal, state and high-profile local offices. Nevertheless, Trump is exaggerating, Otis said. Bragg hiring Colangelo"does not prove Biden's personal involvement in investigating and/or charging Trump, but it's another smelly straw in the wind."The Manhattan district attorney’s investigation of Trump began in 2018, before Biden was his party’s presidential nominee. Bragg filed the charges in 2023. Trump’s fighting a subpoena lengthened this timeline.
Email interview, Frank Bowman, University of Missouri Curators' Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri School of Law, April 19, 2024
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