But this week the district attorney’s office abruptly canceled a scheduled Wednesday meeting of the panel, pushing its deliberations into next week. A Trump spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.īragg’s grand jury investigation was widely expected to yield an imminent indictment of Trump, including by the former president himself. More recently, the Justice Department has used them to prosecute hate crimes and abuses by law enforcement, including in the recent case of a prison guard convicted of sexually assaulting an inmate.Ī spokesperson for Bragg’s office declined to comment on Rolling Stone’s reporting. The statutes derive from legislation passed by Congress as part of reconstruction-era effort to preserve the civil rights of former enslaved people. Those laws prohibit individuals from conspiring against an individual’s civil rights and criminalizes federal, state, or local officials from abusing their positions to deprive people of their constitutional rights. In gaming out how much of this would occur, the upper ranks of Trumpworld have explored using particular federal statutes, such as Section 242 and Section 241 of Title 18 of the United States Code, to have the DOJ go after Bragg. “This happened after we casually discussed with him some of our ideas for how this could work, and how it corresponds with his bigger agenda for ‘law and order’ policies.” Recently, “I have been when the president has asked people to draw up a plan for how to deal with Alvin Bragg and how the Department of Justice could respond to Bragg’s ‘illegal’ investigation of the president,” one of the sources familiar with the situation recalls. But as the Manhattan DA’s criminal investigation into the Trump and the Stormy Daniels hush-money scheme accelerated and reached the point of likely indictment, Bragg’s name started coming up even more frequently in these conversations with Trump. Bragg had already been near the top of Trump’s wish list of potential targets for a while. Trump and his inner orbit are already drawing up ways to take revenge on Alvin Bragg, aiming to punish the Manhattan district attorney for his investigation into the former president, according to two sources familiar with the matter and two other people close to Trump.įor months, Trump and several of his political and policy advisers have outlined legal strategies for how they could use the Justice Department to pursue certain prosecutors and DAs, the sources tell Rolling Stone.
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