(CNSNews.com) - "I believe we have to hold him accountable," Alvin Bragg said of Donald Trump in January 2021, even before Bragg became the George-Soros-backed Manhattan District Attorney.
Bragg, in that same YouTube/"Hot 97" interview, said he was the "only candidate in the race who has the experience with Donald Trump," noting that "we sued the Trump administration over 100 times" when he was chief deputy in the (New York) Attorney General's Office.
Bragg won the election for Manhattan Borough District Attorney in November 2021, and now he's expected to indict Trump for alleged illegalities surrounding a 2016 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels -- a case that federal prosecutors refused to bring against the former president.
An indictment could come this week.
"Yeah, listen, the long and short of it, this indictment, if it comes this week, is absolutely outrageous," Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) told Fox News's Sean Hannity Tuesday night:
"It is frivolous, it is baseless, it is a political persecution. It is not a prosecution. It is targeting Donald Trump because Alvin Bragg is a left-wing Democrat who hates Donald Trump, and legally, this case is absurd on its face.
"Now, it's all based on two New York statutes that concern business records -- the kind of records that you keep in your business. One makes it a misdemeanor to create a false or fraudulent business record. In this instance, what Bragg is trying to argue is that when Trump gave $130,000 to Michael Cohen, who allegedly paid it to Stormy Daniels as hush money and he characterized that as legal fees -- that that business record was false and bogus.
"Now, he's got a problem with that theory, which is under New York State law, that's only a misdemeanor. That has a two-year statute of limitations. So you can't even bring this claim now.
“So Bragg has a second thing he has to do, which is, he has to bootstrap that into a different New York statue, which makes it a felony if you create a false business record in the aid of commission of another crime.
"And presumably that other crime is some sort of Federal Elections Commissions violations. Now, the FEC refused to bring that case. The Department of Justice refused to bring that case. The Southern District of New York/Department of Justice refused to bring that case. Bob Mueller and the Mueller investigation refused to bring that case.
"But Alvin Bragg is going to try to bring a case on a theory -- you know, they tried it with John Edwards. You remember John Edwards, the Democratic senator that ran for president? Had an affair and then gave hush money to his mistress? They tried to prosecute him on this theory -- the case got thrown out of court. This is ridiculous, it is bogus and it is pure partisan attack from a partisan D.A."
Cruz said the basis of Bragg's case is that Donald Trump broke the law when he characterized the payment involving Stormy Daniels as "legal fees."
But that's what Hillary Clinton did in 2016, he noted, when she characterized the million-dollar fee for the Steele dossier as a legal fee.
"And yet, Alvin Bragg, in a million years, wouldn't prosecute Hillary Clinton under this law because he's a partisan Democrat," Cruz said. "This has nothing to do with the law. This has everything to do with politics.
"But the irony is, Sean, if Bragg goes through with this tomorrow, it's going to backfire mightily, and I think the result, ironically, could be a left-wing Democrat, George Soros D.A., if he brings this case and loses, and he will lose, he could end up ironically playing a pivotal role in re-electing Donald Trump as president."