An undercover conservative sting operation has exposed the top spokesman for a New York Department of Justice office admitting that the various civil and criminal cases against former President Donald Trump are politically motivated.
The “unwitting whistleblower,” as host Steven Crowder describes him, is Nicholas Biase, chief of public affairs for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. In grainy footage captured at a bar, Biase is seen waving a pint of beer and casually acknowledging that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s hush money conviction against Trump was intended to damage his chances in the upcoming election. Biase oversees public affairs for one of the most influential federal prosecutorial offices in the U.S., which has been portrayed in popular series like HBO’s Billions.
An undercover journalist from Crowder’s Mug Club made it clear that Bragg’s felony convictions “did nothing to stop” Trump from leading in the polls, while President Joe Biden remained in the race. “No, in fact, they made him more relevant,” Biase admits near the start of the clip. Asked if Bragg’s case backfired, he nods. “It sure did.” Continuing, he said, “The whole thing is disgusting, and they’re out to get him… and that’s why, like, he’s surging in the polls. You know, it’s a perversion of justice.”
The startling remarks by Biase reveal that even the devoted public affairs team of a U.S. attorney general may have reservations about their mission to prosecute Trump. While Bragg is a local prosecutor, his role as a Democrat implies that political considerations may influence his office’s actions. Trump is seeking to overturn his conviction based on a Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity, and Bragg recently informed a judge that he would not oppose Trump’s request to delay sentencing. During the trial, Trump’s defense attorneys accused Bragg of reviving felony fraud charges that had expired under the state’s statute of limitations—a view that Biase seemed to echo in the footage.
“[Bragg] was stacking charges and rearranging things just to make it fit a case. No, to be honest with you I think the case is nonsense,” he revealed, characterizing state-level prosecution as the “Wild West” where federal oversight is less effective. “They’re like idiots, they don’t care, they’re all political, so yeah. [Bragg] is probably gonna try to lock him up.”
Biase claims to have known Bragg for 15 years, long before Bragg took office in 2021 with a mandate to reform the justice system and de-emphasize prosecutions for low-level offenses. Bragg’s approach, coupled with a surge in migrants to New York, has led to a series of high-profile violent incidents, including the mugging of several celebrities and the arrest of recent migrants who assaulted New York police officers. According to Biase, the opportunity to prosecute Trump was too enticing for Bragg to pass on. “Did you know who he was before he tried to prosecute Trump?” he asked the journalist unknowingly. “You do now.”
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BREAKING: DOJ Chief of Public Affairs Admits Trump Indictments Are a Politically Motivated “Perversion of Justice”; Reveals Lawfare Involved in Making Former President a “Convicted Felon” Backfired on Democrats; Claims His Former Colleague Alvin Bragg’s Case is “Nonsense” And… pic.twitter.com/IQhR0ax2pw
— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) September 5, 2024
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