Former Manhattan DA admits the reasoning for why Trump was indicted is unprecedented

The former Manhattan district attorney, who decided not to investigate Donald Trump in the Stormy Daniels payment case, admitted that the charges and the way they were prosecuted are unprecedented.

While Cy Vance said there is a history of elevating document forgery to felonies, he has never seen this happen in a federal election law case, which is happening in the Trump indictment.

The Manhattan grand jury returned an indictment against Trump on Thursday. While details are still sealed, reports indicate there may be at least 30 counts related to business fraud.

The case stems from a $130,000 payment from Trump attorney Michael Cohen to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016 to keep quiet about an alleged affair with Trump a decade earlier.

Former President Donald Trump was photographed on Saturday and Sunday playing golf at his Palm Beach club as he prepared for his arrest in New York on Tuesday

NBC host Chuck Todd pressed Vance why he didn’t press charges against the ex-president, as the charges were increasingly criticized for being “politically motivated” by his Democratic successor – Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

“Why didn’t you sue the hush money case?” Todd asked Sunday morning on his Meet the Press program. “Why didn’t you ever charge it in 2018, 2019, 2020?”

“I don’t want to get into the deliberations that may be covered by grand jury material,” Vance said. “But – as I believe I know – I was asked by the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District to drop our investigation, which had begun with involvement of the Trump Organization.”

“As someone who has tremendous respect for that office and believes they might have the best laws to investigate, I did,” the former Manhattan district attorney added.

Trump is due to be arranged in New York on Tuesday, and is expected to be fingerprinted and have his mugshot taken, which the former president said would be “the most famous in the history of the world.”

Vance admitted he’s not sure how “airtight” Bragg’s case against Trump is, despite saying in an editorial that “it’s not worth continuing” with the suit if the case isn’t very strong is.

“Well, I don’t know if this case is airtight or not,” Vance said to Todd. ‘I know that the Public Prosecution Service has very experienced and seasoned lawyers.’

Todd wanted more substantive responses from Vance amid criticism of the charges, so he asked, “Has your office concluded that a standalone charge of these hush money payments was not worth it because of so many uncertainties surrounding the legal theory?” And that’s why you pursued this larger issue, that this was just part of how the Trump Organization lied about their business records.”

“I don’t want to get into our deliberations,” Vance repeated.

“But we’ve historically filed cases of false documentation, elevating them to felonies when it comes to federal statutes,” he explained. “It’s never been done as far as I know with respect to federal electoral law, which is a fairly specific area of ​​law.”

NBC host Chuck Todd pressed Vance why he didn’t move to sue Trump when he was a Manhattan DA

“But I think the question isn’t so much why I didn’t do it or we did it, but why this prosecutor is doing it. And that really requires us to be patient and wait. This process is not accelerated by talking about it.’

Trump was pictured playing golf at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday.

He announced on Sunday that he will be making remarks from his estate at 8:15 p.m. Tuesday night, just hours after settling in New York.