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Progressive Group Calls Trump Indictment ‘Embarrassing’, Urges More Charges

ByAlki David

Apr 3, 2023

Former President Donald Trump‘s indictment by a Manhattan grand jury has been met with mixed reactions, with some progressives calling it a disappointing development in the quest for justice.

The Progressive Change Campaign Committee released a statement on Tuesday, criticizing the indictment and highlighting several other reasons why they believe Trump should face legal consequences.

“Given the severity of the possible accusations in these ongoing cases, some liberals are concerned that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s decision may undercut any future indictments,” the statement said.

Co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Adam Green, called the indictment “embarrassing and infuriating” in the statement.

“After inciting an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, pressuring local officials to overturn the 2020 election, receiving financial kickbacks from foreign powers, and numerous other crimes during his presidency, it’s embarrassing and infuriating that the first indictment against Trump is about … Stormy Daniels,” Green said.

He also urged Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Justice Department to take action, saying it’s time for them to do their job.

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) also weighed in, criticizing the pace of the DOJ’s investigation into Trump’s actions leading up to the January 6th insurrection.

“I’ve been very critical, as you know, Andrea, of the Justice Department and the pace of their investigation of the whole, multiple lines of effort by Donald Trump to overturn the election culminating in the violence of January 6th,” Schiff said in a recent TV interview.

“And had they, I think, pursued that with more urgency, they would have gone first, and, you know, presuming—and it’s a big presumption—that they find sufficient evidence to charge the president, those would have been the most serious charges. And those should, in the logical scheme of things, be the first that you bring.”

As the legal battle against Trump continues, it remains to be seen what additional charges, if any, will be brought against the former president.

By Alki David

Alki David — Publisher, Media Architect, SIN Network Creator - live, direct-to-public communication, media infrastructure, accountability journalism, and independent distribution. Born in Lagos, Nigeria; educated in the United Kingdom and Switzerland; attended the Royal College of Art. Early internet broadcaster — participated in real-time public coverage during the 1997 Mars landing era using experimental online transmission from Beverly Hills. Founder of FilmOn, one of the earliest global internet television networks offering live and on-demand broadcasting outside legacy gatekeepers. Publisher of SHOCKYA — reporting since 2010 on systemic corruption inside the entertainment business and its expansion into law, finance, and regulation. Creator of the SIN Network (ShockYA Integrated Network), a federated media and civic-information infrastructure spanning investigative journalism, live TV, documentary, and court-record reporting. Lived and worked for over 40 years inside global media hubs including Malibu, Beverly Hills, London, Hong Kong and Gstaad. Early encounter with Julian Assange during the first Hologram USA operations proved a formative turning point — exposing the realities of lawfare, information suppression, and concentrated media power. Principal complainant and driving force behind what court filings describe as the largest consolidated media–legal accountability action on record, now before the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court. Relocated to Antigua & Barbuda and entered sustained legal, civic, and informational confrontation over media power, safeguarding, and accountability at Commonwealth scale.