You don’t have to immerse yourself in the dry legal details of the criminal charges against Donald Trump to determine whether the case is strong. Just measure the miles that Washington and New York elites are placing between them and the unfortunately named Alvin Bragg.
Bragg exhibits all of the qualities that would typically have major newspaper and glossy magazine editors tripping over themselves to have their publications associated with him, eager to photograph Bragg dramatically lit, defiantly staring at the camera. He’s a Democrat. He makes a big show about opposing Trump. He’s a minority. He’s even fat.
And yet there’s been nothing. No gauzy cable news profiles. No photoshoots. No late-night TV tributes to his bravery.
Bragg will forever go down in history as the first man to criminally prosecute a former U.S. president. And not just any former president— Donald Trump!
And nothing?! Stacey Abrams got more respect for losing two elections (three, if you count her sad campaign to get picked as Joe Biden’s running mate).
It’s not as though Bragg isn’t doing something monumental. He has the right idea: Confront Trump in the most theatrical setting possible (preferably as a black or Latinx person, or at least a woman, to raise the “oppressed but brave minority” dynamic) and then field the slew of high-profile media opportunities that inevitably follow.
It worked for Khizr Khan. It worked for “The Squad.” It worked for Liz Cheney, of all people.
It even worked for Michael Avenatti — a white
