Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s reported impending prosecution of former President Donald Trump is based on “made-up laws,” according to prominent legal expert Alan Dershowitz.
But even so, Dershowitz thinks that Trump would still be convicted, saying he’s unlikely to receive a fair trial in the city that leans heavily blue.
The expert was responding to reports that Trump may be indicted next week on charges surrounding hush money paid to adult actress Stormy Daniels. This would make Trump the first former president in history to be criminally charged.
Days before the 2016 presidential election, former Trump attorney Michael Cohen paid Daniels $130,000 in exchange for her silence on claims she had an affair with Trump years earlier, which the former president denies. Cohen pleaded guilty to violating federal campaign finance laws in 2018 for arranging payment to Daniels and another woman claiming to have had an affair with Trump. Cohen claims to have done so at the direction of Trump and was reimbursed by the Trump Organization through routine legal expenses….