Fresh proof Bragg’s Trump case is a reach, and nakedly political

The numbers don’t lie: Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s case against Trump is a massive outlier, not the “bread and butter” move the crime-lover claimed it was.  

Turns out, his office almost never prosecutes cases on charges like the ones he’s mounted against the ex-prez — i.e., first-degree falsifying business records with the “intent to commit another crime or to aid or conceal the commission thereof.”

State crime data crunched by the Times-Union show that Bragg’s office has gone after people for felony charges over that only eight times in the past few years. 

Statewide, there have been fewer than 300 such cases since 2019. 

This alone debunks Bragg’s claim that the Trump case represents just another day in the office. 

And the actual results of such charges are completely laughable. 

Those same data show that the most common outcome is . . . a guilty plea to disorderly conduct.

Under New York law, that’s a violation — a sub-misdemeanor offense in many cases punished only by a fine. 

Felony convictions for such charges are almost unthinkably rare. Jail time equally so.

So Bragg swung big, upended our democratic norms and paved the way for endless political retaliation — all to likely end up whiffing. 

Sure, the move is red meat for the Trump-deranged progs who put the DA in office and have been salivating over any legal action against the ex-prez since Jan. 20, 2016. 

So simply bringing charges is campaign money in the bank for when Let ‘Em Loose Alvin has to defend his office in 2025, or any other campaign he might run.

But the numbers prove that the Trump case is anything but business as usual.

And they show just how political Bragg’s move really is.