Posted on 03/12/2021 10:56:38 AM PST by Olog-hai
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., a veteran prosecutor overseeing a criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump, said Friday that he won’t seek reelection, opting against a primary fight with progressive candidates who say he’s a relic and not a reformer.
Vance made the announcement in a memo to staffers, ending months of speculation about his future and almost certainly guaranteeing it’ll be a brand-new D.A. who sees the Trump case through. His term expires at the end of the year.
Vance, a Democrat, counted Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction a year ago among his crowning achievements but faced withering criticism over other high-profile cases, including dropping rape charges against French financier Dominique Strauss-Kahn in 2011 and declining to prosecute Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. over fraud allegations in 2012. […]
As D.A., Vance ended most marijuana possession and turnstile jumping prosecutions, slashing the cases handled by his office by nearly 60%, to about 42,000 in 2019. He embraced diversionary programs for first-time offenders and established a unit to remedy wrongful convictions. …
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Adios Cyr Ass. Get a friggin’ life.
Cyrus “The Virus”
Why would he leave, unless some skeletons are about to drop out of his own closet.
Chip off the old douchebag block.
Bingo!!! looks like a lot of folks are dropping out. Me thinks something is up.
All the swamp creatures are trying to escape the zoo because the Marxists are taking over and the first people they take down are their own.
Definitely a signal that President Trump’s tax returns don’t contain anything illegal, and once again it will be proven Trump did nothing wrong. If Scumbag Vance had a case he would likely be running for Governor or the Senate. They got nothing on our President Trump.
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