Chicago City Wire

Chicago political writer Michael Bargo Jr. is decrying the prosecution of former president Donald Trump. 

Bargo blames the Democrats including Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg for Trump's indictment.

“Prosecutor Bragg is a criminal: and commits Federal crimes with phony accusations,” Bargo said on Facebook. “Then again, this is how Democrats are today, they go all the way. It's all or nothing for them. They've controlled so many cities for so long that they think they run the nation. But their cities are crumbling and nobody on Wall St. ever talks about their huge stolen public pensions, which steal billions and billions from consumers every week, and ruin businesses in the US. It's gone too far.” 

Bargo is the author of the book Mexicago: How the Chicago Political Machine Created Sanctuary Policy to Exploit Immigrants and Grow Government.

The indictment against Trump lists 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. The charges were brought by Bragg whose predecessor had refused the charges as misdemeanors for six years. Bragg ran for office on the promise of prosecuting Trump, Washington Examiner reported.

Trump is accused of making a number of improper payments in 2017 “with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission” in many cases through invoices from his former attorney Michael Cohen, according to the indictment document.

In comments at his Mar-A-Lago estate in the wake of the arraignment Trump denounced the charges. 

“This fake case was brought only to interfere with the upcoming 2024 election, and it should be dropped immediately,” Trump said. 

He noted the interference of intelligence agencies in censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story prior to the November 2020 election. 

“Just recently, the FBI and DOJ in collusion with Twitter and Facebook in order not to say anything bad about the Hunter Biden laptop from him, which exposes the Biden family as criminals and which, according to the pollsters, would have made a 17-point difference in the election result,” Trump said. “And we needed a lot less than that. Like about 16.9. It would have been in our favor, not my favor our favor because our country is going to hell. And we remember the 51 intelligence agents who said Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation. It didn't exist. It was Russian disinformation. Remember that? And that was all confirmed strongly by the FBI when they all knew that it wasn't Russian disinformation and so much more.”