Former President Donald Trump is banking on his authority to prosecute some of his top Democratic nemeses, including Alvin Bragg and Letitia James, if he wins another four-year term in the White House.
Insiders close to Trump, speaking with AXIOS, laid out a strategy by which a newly elected President Trump could rely on existing civil rights laws to charge the two progressive New York prosecutors. Steve Bannon, a former top advisor to the Republican, would be among those pushing an elected President Trump to act.
“Of course [Bragg] should be — and will be — jailed,” Bannon told the outlet, describing how many in the MAGA movement feel about the Manhattan district attorney who oversaw Trump’s hush money prosecution. To get there, Bannon argued, Trump could rely on the 14th Amendment (equal protection) and Fourth Amendment (outlawing unreasonable searches and seizures by the government) “plus scores of other” laws. The “War Room” host suggested a lawfare probe should include “investigations to include [Democrats’] media allies.”
