Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg spoke to reporters Thursday evening after guilty verdicts were handed down against former president Donald Trump, attempting to cast himself as a statesman who went after a corrupt, seemingly untouchable politician and, despite all temptations to act in a biased manner, worked with the people in his office to honorably carry out their duty. "I was just doing my job," he says.

I want to thank this phenomenal prosecution team, embodying the finest traditions of this office: professionalism, integrity, dedication, and service. They are model public servants, and I am proud and humbled to serve side-by-side with them.

Of course, that's a disgusting and completely false narrative - as fake as the case against Donald Trump. This is a prosecution that was declined by Cy Vance and by the US Department of Justice, and as of the time of publication we don't even know what underlying "crimes" Trump was convicted of.

Read RedState's coverage of Trump's Manhattan Trial

An even more insulting and provocative assertion from Bragg in his short press conference was this:

And while this defendant may be unlike any other in American history…we arrived at this trial and ultimately today at this verdict in the same manner as every other case that comes through the courtroom doors: by following the facts and the law and by doing so without fear or favor.

That's just simply not the case. This prosecution was planned for years, and if Alvin Bragg was prosecuting all cases in which a political candidate or their attorney entered into a paid non-disclosure agreement with someone who had negative information about them, well, there would be lots of Democrats under indictment right now. Perhaps Bragg can next look into the 51 people who signed the letter declaring the laptop the U.S. Department of Justice has now confirmed as belonging to Hunter Biden as "Russian disinformation" in the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election - and those who orchestrated its composition - and see what positions they were promised in a potential Biden administration or other monetary or professional benefits they were promised/given in exchange for their advocacy?

"The defendant, Donald J. Trump, is guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree to conceal a scheme to corrupt the 2016 Election."

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Of course he won't. He's too busy lapping up the adoration from the mainstream media and casting himself as some kind of statesman:

"I did my job. We did our job. Many voices out there. The only voice that matters is the voice of the jury, and the jury has spoken."

Bragg, of course, failed to note that the jury was only given certain evidence (and at times evidence that likely shouldn't have been admitted) and convoluted and controversial instructions that seemed to be designed to ensure a conviction, which dilutes the effect of their voice. I would add that the appellate courts have a pretty large voice as well, and they have yet to speak.