Stephen A. Smith Skewers Alvin Bragg For Wasting ‘Taxpayer Dollars’ To Maintain Trump Conviction

ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith criticized Democratic Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Monday for wasting “taxpayer dollars” in order to uphold his conviction of President-elect Donald Trump.

Bragg, in his Dec. 9 opposition to Trump’s motion to dismiss the case, suggested that Judge Juan Merchan could adopt an abatement — a legal mechanism typically used “when a defendant dies between conviction and sentencing,” according to MSNBC legal correspondent Lisa Rubin. Smith, on “The Stephen A. Smith Show,” characterized Bragg’s suggestion as a pathetic attempt to keep his conviction of Trump rather than a responsible use of taxpayer resources.

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“When I see Attorney Bragg in New York trying to convince the judge and the courts to treat Donald Trump as if he’s deceased, as if he has died, just to make sure that your convictions on those 34 felony accounts remains a part of the record, it just shows another level of patheticness, if that is such a word, that creeps in,” Smith said. “Once again, you can’t let it go. He is the president-elect of the United States of America.”