Time Magazine
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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg may be poised to bring criminal charges against Donald Trump.
A grand jury is weighing an indictment as it hears evidence about an alleged hush money payment Trump made to pornographic film actor Stormy Daniels weeks before the 2016 election.
Trump has said he would continue his presidential campaign if he was indicted.
Hush money payments aren't illegal, says von Spakovsky, and a local prosecutor shouldn’t even be pursuing a case focused on alleged campaign violations.
Such cases, he argues, belong to federal prosecutors at the Department of Justice and the Federal Election Commission who have known about Cohen’s guilty plea related to campaign violations since 2018.
“Clearly, the two federal agencies responsible for enforcing the law and federal campaign finance laws, none of them thought this was a violation” worth charging Trump.
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