Alvin Bragg’s Unusual ‘Book List’: Prosecutor Mines Bestsellers, Including Stormy Daniels’ Memoir, as He Goes After Trump

The prosecutor’s list of ‘evidence’ includes multiple books on the former president, going back even to Donald Trump’s famous 1987 memoir, ‘The Art of the Deal.’

AP/Seth Wenig, file
The Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, at New York, February 7, 2023. AP/Seth Wenig, file

The disclosure by District Attorney Alvin Bragg of some of the evidence against President Trump indicates that the prosecutor is scrutinizing not just financial documents and audio recordings, but a more unusual source — the bestseller list. The roster raises the possibility that The People v. Donald Trump could use prose to prosecute a president.  

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