An exuberant liberal pundit deemed Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg the “anointed one” following the conviction of Donald Trump for falsifying business records in the Stormy Daniels hush money trial.
On MSNBC Lawrence O’Donnell treated viewers to a trip down memory lane, featuring a fawning 1995 article in the Harvard Crimson.
Bragg served as a leader in the Harvard Black Students Association when he was an undergraduate student at the liberal arts college.
“The Crimson ran a profile of him and the title of that profile, in his last week of college, was the ‘anointed one,’ ” O’Donnell said in conversation with fellow host Rachel Maddow Friday night. “You finish that article thinking, ‘Yeah that’s the right title. That’s who this guy is.’ “
“The people of Manhattan who elected him, that’s what they saw. They saw somebody who is dedicated to doing this job and doing it flawlessly and so profoundly modestly,” O’Donnell gushed.
The Crimson ode was issued after Bragg organized a speech on campus by Leonard Jeffries — a disgraced City University of New York African Studies professor who rose to infamy four years earlier when he declared that Jews and the Mafia conspired to keep down blacks.
“The Harvard senior himself says he will likely not end up running for office,” the article wrongly speculated, and said Bragg had “a rare ability to reconcile diverse people and clashing views.”
Trump has vowed to appeal his conviction and his campaign has raised $53 million in the first 24 hours after the verdict was announced.
