How a ‘Nerdy’ Prosecutor Became the First to Try Trump
Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan D.A., campaigned as the best candidate to go after the former president. Now he finds himself leading Trump’s first prosecution — and perhaps the only one before the November election.
By Kim BarkerJonah E. Bromwich and
![“The case is not — the core of it’s not — money for sex,” Bragg said in a radio interview in December. “We would say it’s about conspiring to corrupt a presidential election and then lying in New York business records to cover it up.”](https://cdn.statically.io/img/static01.nyt.com/images/2024/04/14/magazine/14mag-bragg-06/14mag-bragg-06-jumbo.jpg?auto=webp)