It’s almost like clockwork: As the purported indictment of former President Donald Trump from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg continues to be delayed, a liberal legal analyst is now claiming Trump broke the law via posts on his Truth Social media platform dealing with Bragg.
As per Newsweek: “Across various posts, Trump called Bragg a ‘Soros-funded animal'” — a reference to leftist billionaire George Soros’ $1 million donation to the Color of Change PAC, which pledged the same amount toward electing the New York prosecutor — “and threatened that there would be ‘death & destruction’ should he be charged.
“He also shared a picture of himself holding a baseball bat next to another photo of Bragg, as if to suggest an attack, which he later deleted.”
Well, according to Glenn Kirschner — a former federal prosecutor and legal analyst who’ll seemingly appear anywhere, anytime, under any pretense — Trump’s posts, particularly the baseball bat one, violated New York state law, including Section 195.05, “obstructing governmental administration in the second degree.”
“Friends, when the grand jurors reconvene on Monday, they should receive additional evidence from prosecutors of Donald Trump’s ‘death and destruction’ threats in violation of Section 195.05,” Kirschner said on his YouTube series “Justice Matters” on Sunday.
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Kirschner is indeed an inexhaustible resource, because on Monday’s “Justice Matters,” he found a further federal law he claimed the former president and 2024 candidate violated with those posts, 18 U.S. Code Section 875. That law involves the transmission of “interstate or foreign commerce, any communication containing any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person.”
“Now, posting something on the internet equals transmitting it in interstate commerce,” Kirshner said.
“And this picture depicting you taking a bat to your prosecutor equals a threat to another, and Donald Trump should be prosecuted both locally in New York and federally, because justice matters,” he said.
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The charge is punishable by a fine or “not more than five years [of prison] or both.”
And boy, is the left embracing this one:
NOW: According to legal analyst Glenn Kirschner, Donald Trump’s social media posts aimed at Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg break state and federal laws.
Kirschner believes that Trump’s posts, especially one with a threatening image, were an effort to intimidate Bragg… pic.twitter.com/CJf0SyIQJK
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) March 29, 2023
“…This picture depicting you taking a bat to your prosecutor equals a threat to another and Donald Trump should be prosecuted both locally in New York and federally, because justice matters,” Kirschner said. https://t.co/DBnsAa0oSI
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) March 29, 2023
Disgraceful Trump showed photo of him with a baseball bat threatening Bragg, Glenn Kirschner found a law that incriminates Trump AGAIN, coward Trump removed the despicable photo. MAGA delegates at the prison where insurrectionist are held hugged and called the thugs patriots
— Malcolm Welch (@Malcy43) March 26, 2023
The Truth Social post of Trump with a baseball bat next to Alvin Bragg’s photo was actually illegal. According to Glen Kirschner, it’s a violation of a NY state law. Expressly, Section 195.05, “obstructing governmental administration in the second degree.” https://t.co/3lbUGGtsst
— Claire Bear Resists (@claireluvsbearz) March 29, 2023
Now, there are several problems with this.
The first is proving that Trump created the image of him with the baseball bat, ordered its commissioning or approved its being posted. According to Breitbart, that’s not the case. What happened was that he reposted an article from a media outlet that placed the image of him with the baseball bat alongside a photo of Bragg.
“You have to understand that when the story was put up, I put up a story, we didn’t see pictures,” Trump said during an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity.
“We put up a story that was very exculpatory, very good story from the standpoint of what we’re talking about,” he said. “And they put up a picture of me. And you know where I was holding the baseball bat? It was at the White House, ‘Make America, Buy America,’ because I did a lot of ‘Buy America’ things, and this was a company that makes baseball bats.
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