A Facebook post alleges that Alvin Bragg, the prosecutor responsible for the investigation that led to the impeachment of Donald Trump, was arrested in Manhattan, New York, in a post that promises to even show the “sirens” going off during Bragg’s arrest. But that didn’t happen, even if Trump wanted to.

A search of Bragg in the news shows that there is no record of Bragg being arrested this month, before and after this Facebook post, or ever in his life. Just last Thursday, in the middle of the afternoon, the New York Times published a profile of Bragg without any reference to gender.

The prosecutor was in the news recently, but for conducting the investigation that actually led to Trump’s arrest (a step that is part of the formal prosecution process, with the former US president promptly returning to his property in Mara- -Lake, Florida).

It was Trump himself who called for Bragg’s arrest, as well as his supporters. As Bragg is a Democrat – he won the party’s nomination for Manhattan prosecutor in January of this year – the former president, accused of having allegedly paid for the silence of the former pornographic actress Stormy Daniels about a personal involvement they had, has accused the prosecutor of being biased and persecuting him politically.

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In his account on the Truth Social social network, Trump has already said that it is Bragg who is “violating the law” by resorting to “false and totally discredited testimonies” to go after a former president (and again announced candidate for the Republican nomination for the 2024 elections). “Alvin Bragg should be held accountable for the crime of interfering in a presidential election,” Trump concluded. “The criminal is Bragg,” he said in a speech.

His supporter and Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene also argued that Bragg should be arrested for “misconduct,” accusing him of “hiding pages of evidence” that would supposedly exonerate Trump.

But this is, so far, just the wishes of the Republican side and supporters of the former president, who see the case against Trump in the US court. A Bragg assistant responded to these accusations by assuring, quoted by Reuters, that the prosecutor will not be “intimidated by attempts to minimize the judicial process” or by “unfounded accusations.”

This week, Bragg even moved forward with a lawsuit against Republican Congressman Jim Jordan, alleging there is a “transparent campaign to intimidate and attack” the attorney general’s office over the lawsuit against Donald Trump.

Alvin Bragg is 49 years old and has been the attorney general of Manhattan since January of last year. He grew up in the New York neighborhood of Harlem and decided to study law after being threatened with guns six times growing up. Later, he worked in the Manhattan prosecutor’s office, where, according to Reuters, he mainly handled fraud and money laundering cases.

In the New York attorney general’s office, he worked on the case against the Trump Organization, which ended up being sentenced to pay a fine of 1.6 million dollars (1.5 million euros) for tax fraud.

When he took office, Bragg did not immediately press charges against Trump, leading to the removal of two of the prosecutors involved in the then-broader case. However, he returned to focusing on the issue of paying Stormy Daniels.

Conclusion

There are no indications or news that mention an arrest of Alvin Bragg. The one who asks for this to happen is Donald Trump -yes, formally accused by justice- and his supporters.

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