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'BLIND-EYE' BRAGG: Trump Lawyer Goes Scorched Earth on Manhattan DA for Prosecutorial Misconduct

By Eric Bolling Staff

(Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Donald Trump’s attorney Todd Blanche has sent an 11-page letter to New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg blasting him for “prosecutorial misconduct” ahead of Trump’s NYC hush money case.

From NEWSMAX:

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Attorney Todd Blanche ripped Bragg for turning a “blind eye” to the “admitted and repeated perjury” of Michael Cohen, a former Trump lawyer, who is the prosecution’s star witness in the trial.

At the same time, Blanche says Bragg is using his office to put “vindictive and oppressive pressure” on Allen Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, who pleaded guilty Monday to perjury for false statements he made last May ahead of the recently completed civil trial against Trump.

Weisselberg, 76, entered court in handcuffs. He was sentenced to five months.

“This dereliction of duty renders you fully unfit to serve as District Attorney, and exposes innocent citizens, like Mr. Weisselberg, to irreparable and life-altering harm,” Blanche wrote.

“Today, your office has forced Mr. Weisselberg into pleading guilty to nonexistent perjury offenses by threatening him with years in state prison should he not succumb to your demands.”

Blanche continued, “To compel a plea today to drummed-up charges of which a jury would never convict, we understand DANY threatened to file a sham indictment against Mr. Weisselberg and then to immediately ask Judge [Juan] Merchan to violate Mr. Weisselberg, who is on probation, risking further jail time even though he is, in fact, innocent of any crime. Such tactics have no place in our American justice system, and you should be alarmed by and ashamed of this tyrannical conduct.”

Full story over at NEWSMAX:

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