Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, long an ardent anti-Trumper, immediately took to the web to boast with glee a couple years ago when a jury returned convictions on 34 counts he brought against President Donald Trump.
The counts were for “falsifying business records” over payments Trump made to his lawyer over claims made by ex-stripper Stormy Daniels, claims rejected by Trump as false.
Of course the charges were misdemeanors for which the statute of limitations had expired, so Bragg wildly claimed they were felonies because they were in support of another, unspecified and unidentified, “crime.”
Then there was the anti-Trump judge in the case, Juan Merchan, who literally orchestrated what witnesses were allowed, or not allowed, to say. And don’t forget the judge’s daughter “ran a fundraising organization that raised money for Democrat candidates” off what her father did in the courtroom.
Bragg contended that Trump “engaged in a scheme to corrupt” the 2016 vote by reporting the payments to his lawyer at the time, Michael Cohen, as legal expenses.
The case still is pending on appeal, but is being used routinely by Democrats and other leftists to label Trump a “convict.”
But clouds are on the horizon.
The Daily Signal pointed out that friend-of-the-court briefs were calling for the reversal of the case result.
For one thing the case was used by Bragg, in state court, to address allegations of federal campaign finance laws, and Bragg’s critics pointed out he was trying to criminalize conduct over which he had no jurisdiction.
Further, the Daily Caller News Foundation reported when MeidasTouch, a left-wing media company, confirmed it was cutting ties with Bragg’s star witness, Cohen, after he claimed prosecutors pressured him to curate his testimony against President Donald Trump.
Cohen, who was Trump’s former personal attorney and “fixer” for over a decade, served as a key witness against the president during the Democrats’ prosecution of Trump.
Cohen posted his comments to Substack, writing it was clear prosecutors “were interested only in testimony from me that would enable them to convict” Trump.
“MeidasTouch Network will no longer be producing or carrying the shows Political Beatdown or Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen,” the left-wing company wrote in an X post.
“From the time I first began meeting with lawyers from the Manhattan DA’s office and the New York Attorney General’s Office in connection with their investigations of President Trump, and through the trials themselves, I felt pressured and coerced to only provide information and testimony that would satisfy the government’s desire to build the cases against and secure a judgement and convictions against President Trump,” Cohen wrote on his Substack.
“When my testimony was insufficient for a point the prosecution sought to make, prosecutors frequently asked inappropriate leading questions to elicit answers that supported their narrative,” the former Trump lawyer added.
It’s gotten much worse for Bragg now.
A report at the Gateway Pundit charged, “Legal analyst says Michael Cohen just ‘demolished’ Bragg’s case…”
Trump, on a radio show with Cohen, expressed gratitude that Cohen had “recanted” what he said.
LIVE NOW: Michael and President Trump discuss 2016.
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— TalkRadio 77 WABC (@77WABCradio) August 20, 2026
That led to CNN legal analyst Elie Honig confirming Cohen’s statements “demolish the factual basis of the hush money prosecution and conviction of President Trump.”
President Trump Truth’d this clip last night.
Very, very interesting.
All of those “CONVICTED FELON!” folks are about to lose their talking point. pic.twitter.com/8TtOoPR1pj
— CannCon (@canncon) August 21, 2026
The Pundit report said “Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is waking up to a nightmare unfolding this morning. His ‘Got Trump’ convictions are hanging on by an even thinner thread than he ever imagined after a crushing interview between President Trump and an unsuspecting character yesterday.”
The case, the report said, “rested on whether or not the jury would believe Cohen, who had previously been convicted of perjury for lying to Congress. Cohen also had open hostility toward Trump and a history of lying to business associates and the public.”
President Trump apparently decided to let bygones be bygones and joined Cohen on Cohen’s WABC radio show. the report said.. Trump explains Cohen had “recanted” and Cohen responds, “Yeah.”
Honig confirmed, “Anyone who cheered that hush money prosecution of Donald Trump two years ago has nothing left to stand on.”
“The guy (Cohen) who was the reason every prosecutor who looked at this case, including the Biden DOJ and the prior liberal Democratic DA, passed on charging this case, was because they didn’t trust Michael Cohen beyond a reasonable doubt. Alvin Bragg rolled that dice and now Michael Cohen has said publicly that he ‘felt pressured and coerced by prosecutors.’”
Regarding Cohen, he said, “If you believe he’s a truth-teller, then he felt pressured and coerced by prosecutors. That’s not acceptable. If you believe he’s a liar, then your case is built on a liar.”
He said, “The factual predicate has collapsed…”
