The Manhattan district attorney who oversaw Trump's silence was lavished with praise by MSNBC hosts after the former president was found guilty Thursday.
MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell recalled that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg had been dubbed “the anointed one” by the Harvard Crimson when he graduated in 1995 and said, “That's the right title. That's this guy”.
“The people of Manhattan who elected him, that's what they saw. They saw someone who is dedicated to doing this job and does it impeccably and deeply modestly,” he said. “In a Trump-era country that desperately needs lessons in modesty, Alvin Bragg is that lesson.”
On Thursday, Trump was found guilty of all 34 charges against him in the New York trial related to falsifying business records. His legal team vows to challenge the verdict.
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MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell recalled that the Harvard Crimson had dubbed New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg “the anointed one” when he graduated from college.
O'Donnell compared Trump and Bragg by juxtaposing “the story of these two kids who grew up in New York. One, perhaps the most spoiled brat in the history of American spoiled brats, Donald Trump. On the other side of the aisle is Alvin Bragg, ” who grew up in Harlem on Strivers' Row.
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow also glowingly praised Bragg and prosecutors for being “brave enough” to bring the case that convicted a former U.S. president for the first time in history.
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“You know, Lawrence, it's a good point that at this moment, when this is remembered in history, yes, the crimes will be part of history, the criminals will be part of history, absolutely,” he said. “But the people who were brave enough to take this through the criminal justice system against all the threats they had to face to do it, and against all the odds and against the most powerful people in the country, some of the most powerful people of the world to do it.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg speaks after the guilty verdict in the criminal trial of former US President Donald Trump on charges of falsifying business records to conceal money paid to hush porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, at a conference press conference in New York, United States, on May 30. , 2024. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid (REUTERS)
He then imagined how the team of prosecutors would be immortalized as heroes in the future.
“Those are the people, a few generations from now (I don't know if we'll still have movies), but they'll be the ones who will have blockbuster holograms about them,” he said.
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