Already faced with blowback for bringing a nakedly political indictment against Donald Trump, Alvin Bragg is continuing to degrade the rule of law with yet another abusive prosecution, this time against a former Marine who has been widely hailed as a hero.

Daniel Penny is expected to be arraigned next week over his fateful encounter with deranged vagrant Jordan Neely, who died after being restrained by Penny on a New York City subway car last month.

Bragg has cooked up a "Bolshevik" scheme to sway an otherwise sympathetic jury toward a "guilty" verdict, according to former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy.

Bragg's sham

Neely, who was homeless, has been characterized in the press as a benign Michael Jackson impersonator, but he had a history of violent criminal behavior and was telling passengers that he would kill them when Penny intervened.

The dangerous conditions in New York under Bragg, a Soros-backed, soft-on-crime prosecutor, could play in Penny's favor with the jury. But Bragg has devised a clever workaround.

He is charging Penny twice for the same crime to increase the odds of a conviction, McCarthy wrote. Penny is said to be facing charges of second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide, which come with up to fifteen and four years in jail, respectively.

"Bragg no doubt figures that, if the jurors were to find that the recklessness charge is overblown, they could see the negligence charge as more reasonable," McCarthy wrote. The extra charges could also be used to coerce Penny to plead guilty, McCarthy wrote:

For his part, then, Penny faces a tough choice. He could argue that the negligence count is just a subset of the recklessness count — i.e., that Bragg has taken what is really one offense and multiplied it into two to increase the chances of getting a conviction. But the remedy for that would be to eliminate the less-serious negligence charge — meaning, if he weren’t acquitted, he’d be looking at a harsher sentence.

Weaponizing the law

This is not the first time Bragg has used such thuggish strategies: many questioned his decision to charge Donald Trump with 37 individual felonies for "falsifying business records" in another bogus political case in April.

24-year-old Penny has spoken out since the incident, saying he could not stand there and let Neely act on violent threats toward other passengers.

"The three main threats he repeated over and over was 'I'm going to kill you,' 'I'm prepared to go to jail for life' and 'I'm willing to die,'" Penny said in a video statement.

Penny was initially released by police, but he was arrested days later after Marxist activists voiced outrage over Neely's unfortunate death. He was later released on $100,000 bail.

A witness has called Penny a "hero", but the communists who run New York City want to make an example out of him, rather than the criminals who walk the streets every day with impunity.