The former leader of the Manhattan DA’s investigation of Donald Trump rejected criticism that details in his new tell-all book would damage any case brought against the former president.
“I think the criticism is unfounded,” Mark Pomerantz told Chuck Todd on Meet the Press and predicted that his book would be “meaningless” for any prosecution.
Pomerantz’s book, “The People vs. Donald Trump,” describes his work as a special prosecutor in the Manhattan DA’s office investigating Trump’s alleged financial crimes. Pomerantz, a former federal prosecutor, ex-D.A. Was hired by. Cy Vance Jr. will lead the investigation into Trump’s finances. The team successfully blames the Trump Organization for the fraud, but Pomerantz quits a month into his term as the new Manhattan DA. Alvin Bragg when Bragg himself refused to green-light a case against Trump.
Todd noted that several former prosecutors, including Andrew Weissman, a member of special counsel Robert Mueller’s team, and MSNBC contributor and former US Attorney Barbara McQuade, have publicly stated that the revelations in Pomerantz’s book could lead to the prosecution of Trump. Can disrupt escape attempts and can be weaponized by them. Trump’s defense attorneys at trial.
Pomerantz responded, “The challenges of mounting a jury trial flow from an ocean of ink about Donald Trump and his lies and what I believe are his crimes.” “I don’t think a jury trial will make any difference to my book.”
Pomerantz said that Trump’s defense attorneys would object to “everything under the sun” and predicted that the district attorney’s office would tell the court, “‘There is nothing in this book that will prejudice this prosecution. Do it. So this book is meaningless, it does not provide any kind of defense.’”
The Manhattan DA’s office is now moving forward on a possible prosecution of Trump for allegedly hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels. Pomerantz noted that anything in his book about that case was already in the public domain “for literally years” through the media, former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s book, and the federal case for payoffs re Cohen. .
Pomerantz said, “I’m as confident as I can be that this is not going to compromise the prosecution.”
Pressed by Todd, Pomerantz also insisted that Vance greenlight the prosecution of Trump before he leaves office in late 2021.
Bragg, who took office in January 2022, has said he and other prosecutors reviewed the case and determined it was not ready.