"I’ve seen prosecutors who would chew off their own foot rather than give
up on a $20 hand-to-hand drug deal. I’ve seen U.S. Attorneys who would
start with the damn part-time janitor in the building where corrupt
business was being conducted and work their way mercilessly up the food
chain from there. What is it about this ambulatory lump of triglycerides
that scares the daylights out of every prosecutor who crosses his path?
I mean, the guy isn’t even as rich as he says he is. And anyway, giving
up on wealthy criminals because they can afford better lawyers than the
government can is yet another set of rails on which we can run to
authoritarian hell. That’s always been the former president*’s
fundamental immune system, and he hasn’t even had top-of-the-line legal
help. It’s all about the bluff. Always was." -- Charles P. Pierce, on Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's apparent decision not to extend the term of the grand jury investigating the financial crimes of the Trump Organization. What a chickenshit they elected up there in Manhattan.
