So that helps explain the Manhattan DA drama over the Donald Trump criminal case
Yesterday the news broke that the two prosecutors leading the Manhattan District Attorney’s criminal case against Donald Trump had resigned. The two major newspapers that broke the story went on to spin it in almost apocalyptically negative fashion, suggesting that the case was dead and that Trump would now somehow magically just get away with it all. At the time, we pointed out that the “sources” for the story didn’t seem to have any idea why the prosecutors had resigned, and were instead either guessing or making things up.
Now more of the story is coming out, and it appears the whole thing is a lot less dire and a lot more understandable than the initial reporting suggested. According to the Washington Post, new Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg has now put Susan Hoffinger in charge of the Trump case. Bragg recently hired her to be a part of his team, and she left her own family’s law firm in order to take the gig. Her speciality: white collar cases.
In other words, this sounds like it’s a matter of the new Manhattan DA wanting his own handpicked person in charge of the Trump criminal case, instead of the people who were handpicked by the old Manhattan DA. Maybe this means the case is going in a different direction, or maybe it was a personality conflict, or perhaps the new DA just wanted to put his own stamp on it. But whatever the reason, this appears to have been about office politics, and not about the viability of the Trump case. There is still every reason to expect the case will continue to move forward, and that Trump is on a path to prison.
