Last year, Bragg’s office induced Allen Weisselberg, a longtime Trump Organization executive, to plead guilty to 15 tax charges so trifling that he was sentenced to all of 100 days in jail (in the main, the case involved failing to pay taxes on perks).

Of course, that is a significant sentence in Bragg’s Manhattan, where the laws often go minimally enforced, if enforced at all, against hardened criminals. Only yesterday, for example, a group of fighting-age male illegal aliens in the country thanks to Biden’s border crisis smirked and flipped their middle fingers at onlookers as they strutted out of Manhattan court after being released, without bail, following their vicious beating of two NYPD cops near Times Square.

While assaults on police are not a priority for him, Bragg, an elected Democrat, is committed to nailing Donald Trump. So he turned the screws on Weisselberg. While even violent offenders often evade incarceration in Manhattan, the 76-year-old was locked up in Rikers Island for three months after pleading guilty to the minor, non-violent crimes, as Bragg pressured him to testify against Trump.

[I wasn’t clear yesterday that the case involving the assault on the NYPD officers was handled by Bragg’s office. This is a ludicrous situation, having violent offenders run free while using the power of the DA’s office to conduct a legal war on an old man who’s already dealt with his minor crimes. It’s the worst kind of politicization in both directions. — Ed]