BLOCKBUSTER: Bragg Could Face 5 Years In Prison For Indictment Leak

bring in to react to all of this. Harvard Law professor Emeritus and author of

Get Trump? The Threat to Civil Liberties, Due Process, and our Constitutional Rule

of Law, Alan Dershowitz. Alan, good morning to you. So many questions for you

Let's start with the legal side before we get to the politics of this. Again, the

indictment is not, until it's unsealed, we don't specifically know what's in it, but

the thinking is that he's gonna go after the former president for falsifying

business records. That is a misdemeanor. To elevate that to a felony, he has to

prove that President Trump had an intent to defraud. Your thoughts on what the

legal side of this is so far? Start with the most likely felony that's been

committed in this case, and that is if somebody on the grand jury, prosecutor

grand juror, leaked the fact that there was a vote to indict. That is a one to

five year Class E felony under New York. So Bragg now has a prima facie case that

a crime has been committed right in his building. But as far as I know, he's not

investigating it. Now, we don't know who did the leak. It's conceivable it could

have been done for somebody in the Trump administration, but I doubt it because

they seem to have been taken by great surprise. So the most likely source of the leak is someone from within Bragg's office or within the grand jury. That's

where the focus ought to be, because there you have a crime, and then you try

to find out who committed the crime. It's the opposite of what happened in the Trump case. With Trump, they say, let's get Trump. Title of my book, Get

Trump, comes from the campaign pledges of the District Attorney and the Attorney

General of New York. Let's get Trump. We'll figure out what crimes there might

be after we get elected. They get elected. They spend years searching for

crimes. They find. So they make up a fake misdemeanor about corporate

records. Then they try to piggyback a federal felony on that. Now, again, we

don't know what's in the indictment that will probably get leaked to by the same person who leaked the fact that there was a vote. So until we know what's in

the indictment, we can't know for sure. But from everything we know now, this looks like the weakest case in modern history. And when you have a Democrat

who had run for office on the campaign to get Trump, and he's trying to indict

the man who's about to run against the head of the Democratic Party, namely

President Joe Biden, you better have a slam dunk case. Now, we don't know if

it is a slam dunk case, but from everything we know, this seems like an

extraordinarily weak case and an extraordinary abuse of prosecutorial discretion. But let's keep an open mind. We can see what the indictment says. But

in the meantime, there should be an investigation of was there a leak? And

if so, who did the leaking? Alan Dershowitz is one of the most famed

legal scholars of our time or any time for that matter. This is a man who is a

Democrat. He is unashamed being a Democrat. He has said it a million

times. He is a Democrat, but he recognizes the law. He said it for the

entire Trump administration. He realizes exactly what is going on here with the

prosecution and the persecution of Donald John Trump. But now now it might

be Alvin Bragg or one of the members of the grand jury who leaked the

information about the indictment, because let's not forget this was a sealed indictment. The media was not supposed to know about it until such

time as Donald John Trump was arraigned. However, that didn't happen. What

happened was, as you know, the media got news of it on Thursday, and it went

wild, and it caused a lot of consternation and a lot of issues. Well

now somebody and it could be Alvin Bragg. It could be one of the members

of the grand jury. But you know, Alvin does like that publicity, but it could

be him. It could be one of the members of the grand jury, but somebody somebody could be facing as much as five years in prison for this for this

leak. That's the actual felony that happened here. Just like Alan Dershowitz said, that is the actual felony that happened here. As far as

the case against Trump, as Dershowitz said, it's probably not gonna do much

of anything. I mean, you do have a New York jury. That's the only problem, and you've got to get it out of New York. You've got to get it out of New

York. There's no way he can get a fair trial in New York. That is my biggest concern, folks. I want to thank you for joining us here today. I am Carmine

Sabia. This is Explain America. Before you go, I want to ask you to like

comment, share and subscribe. Subscribe to us on YouTube at Explain America

and, of course, follow us at Explain America on Facebook. Also consider

joining our Patriots program on YouTube. It's a membership, and it's only $1 a month, and it helps us keep creating great content. We love you

guys. God bless you. Take care, everybody