Geraldo Rivera slams Alvin Bragg: This is 'low down and dirty local politics'
'The Five' co-host Geraldo Rivera criticizes Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg for diverting resources away from the city's raging crime crisis to focus on the Trump indictment.
Geraldo Rivera, co-host of "The Five," sharply criticized Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's indictment of former President Trump as "low down and dirty local politics." Rivera pointed out on "Fox & Friends" Friday that Bragg diverted resources to the Trump case instead of prioritizing violent crime.
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GERALDO RIVERA: This is a chump change indictment here in New York. Here's Alvin Bragg, a man, a district attorney, who is widely criticized as not enforcing the law and allowing robberies and rapes and carjacking and murders to happen without the office being as intensely engaged as it possibly could be. And instead, he diverts the resources to go after Donald Trump on an eight-year-old incident that was already passed over by the federal prosecutors and Cy Vance, who preceded Alvin Bragg in the DA's office. They checked this stuff out, and they decided not to go forward. So to go forward on this story, Daniels payoff, I think, to me is really low down and dirty local politics.
District Attorney Alvin Bragg speaks at a press conference to discuss the charges against Steve Bannon in New York on September 8, 2022. - Bannon, 68, Donald Trump's former advisor, was indicted on state charges of money laundering, conspiracy and fraud related to an alleged online scheme to raise money for the construction of the US-Mexico border wall. ((Photo by ALEX KENT/AFP via Getty Images))
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President Biden said Friday he has "no comment" on the unprecedented indictment.
The former president of the United States and the leading Republican presidential nominee for 2024 was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury Thursday after a years-long investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
The White House also declined to comment when asked for reaction to the unprecedented charges against Trump.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has been investigating Trump for hush money payments made leading up to the 2016 presidential election.
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