With election season upon us in the US, the political landscape is changing as the calendar turns to the November 5 presidential elections. The arrest of New York Mayor Eric Adams has exposed the flaws in the claims Former President Donald Trump The system was crooked and biased against him and other Republicans.
Adams was convicted Charged with five separate federal public corruption charges, and maintains his innocence, alleging that he is being targeted because of his position.
“I always knew that if I stood my ground for all of you, I would be a target – and I became a target,” Adams said in a statement after news of his indictment broke Wednesday night. ” Notably, even before charges were unsealed against Adams on Thursday, his official residence was searched by federal agents.
As CNN reports, Trump has maintained the existence of a system that is bent on going after him and has pledged that if he is elected president, he will use the Justice Department to go after his political opponents. (DOJ).
What proves Trump’s claims baseless is not just the arrest of Mayor Adams on corruption charges. Nor is it just the conviction of Senator Bob Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, who was found guilty of specific corruption and bribery counts. ,
Maybe another fact provides more credibility. Such is the fact that the office that prosecuted Adams and convicted Menendez was the same office that in 2021, after Trump left office, accused porn star Stormy Daniels of violating campaign finance laws with hush money payments. The former President was not prosecuted for. CNN reported.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who is an elected official rather than an appointed prosecutor, ultimately reopened the case using state law on federal campaign finance violations. The former president was ultimately convicted of 34 counts of falsifying business records. Sentencing for the convictions is scheduled to take place after the presidential election in late November.
Another example is the case conducted by Jack Smith, special counsel appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland. Smith’s case involves the former president accused of trying to subvert the 2020 presidential election results and mishandling classified data. Both cases are stalled indefinitely in federal courts.