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   A top Department of Justice spokesman in New York was caught on a hidden   
   camera ripping Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg for his recent   
   prosecution of former President Donald Trump — accusing Bragg of   
   conducting “lawfare” just to further his own political ambitions.   
      
   Nicholas Biase, chief spokesman for the Manhattan US Attorney’s Office,   
   was secretly recorded tearing into the progressive prosecutor during a   
   recent conversation with a so-called undercover operative from   
   conservative podcaster Steven Crowder’s “Mug Club.”   
      
   “Honestly, I think the case is nonsense,” Biase was filmed saying to an   
   unidentified woman on July 31 at what appears to be a bar.   
      
   The edited clip, and another from August 14, were released by Crowder on   
   social media Thursday. The identity of the woman who secretly recorded the   
   exchange with Biase wasn’t made public. The Post has not reviewed the   
   full, unedited recordings.   
      
   Biase — who said he’d known Bragg for 15 years and previously worked with   
   him at SDNY — described the unprecedented hush money case against Trump as   
   a “perversion of justice” in the footage.   
      
   He also claimed the headline-grabbing prosecutor pursued the case to make   
   a name for himself and run for higher office.   
      
   “He wants to be, something … a mayor? I’m not sure what he wants to be,   
   but I know he’s not happy just being the DA of New York County. Before he   
   decided to prosecute Trump, did you know who he was? You do now,” he said   
   in the clip.   
      
   An apologetic Biase told The Post in a statement Thursday that he made the   
   remarks in a private setting with someone he’d “just met” and was trying   
   to “impress.”   
      
   At one point in the video, Biase accused Bragg of “stacking charges   
   [against Trump] and, like, rearranging things just to make it fit a case.”   
      
   Trump, who was convicted on 34 felony charges of falsifying business   
   records over payments made to a porn star ahead of the 2016 election, is   
   set to be sentenced on Sept. 18.   
      
   “This guy is probably going to try to lock him [Trump] up. And there is   
   going to be, it’s going to be ugly…,” Biase said, in an apparent reference   
   to Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan, who is overseeing the case.   
      
   “They are so obsessed with getting him [Trump],” he continued.   
      
   Asked whom he meant by “they,” Biase shot back: “The Democrats … It   
   affects his candidacy if he’s a convicted felon.”   
      
   But the spokesman said the apparent ruse backfired.   
      
   “Those felonies did nothing to stop Trump from running … In fact, they   
   made him [Trump] more relevant,” Biase said in the recording.   
      
   Later, Biase appeared to refer to Trump’s separate civil fraud case   
   brought by state Attorney General Letitia James, in which the ex-president   
   was found guilty of inflating the value of his assets to get bank loans.   
      
   “Every real estate person in New York does what he [Trump] did. Nobody’s   
   ever been charged with this … You know, it’s a perversion of justice,” he   
   was filmed saying.   
      
   Biase also railed against state-level justice systems as a whole,   
   describing it as “the Wild West.”   
      
   “At the federal level, where I work, there is a 90-day rule where you   
   can’t make any decisions on cases that are going to affect an election   
   [within 90 days of an election],” he said.   
      
   “That rule does not apply at the state level because the state level is   
   like the f–king Wild West … They are like idiots. They don’t care. They’re   
   all political.”   
      
   Elsewhere, Biase described another state-level prosecution of Trump by   
   another elected Democrat, District Attorney Fani Willis of Fulton County,   
   Georgia, as a “travesty of justice.”   
      
   Trump and 18 co-defendants were indicted last year on charges of   
   conspiring to overturn the 2020 election result in the Peach State.   
      
   “To put it mildly, it’s a mockery of justice. She is a joke … The whole   
   thing is disgusting. They’re just out to get him [Trump],” Biase said of   
   Willis.   
      
   Biase has since apologized for the remarks, telling The Post on Thursday   
   he “should have known better.”   
      
   “I was recently made aware of a video where I regretfully made some   
   statements in a private and social setting that don’t reflect my views   
   about two local and state prosecutions,” he said in a statement.   
      
   “I said these things in an effort to please and impress someone I just   
   met, who was secretly filming me. I’m deeply sorry to the local and state   
   law enforcement officials working on these matters, who deserve more   
   respect than I showed them.  I should have known better.”   
      
   Biase was promoted to his current role in 2021 by Manhattan US Attorney   
   Damian Williams.   
      
   At the time, Williams described him as a “vital liaison for an office in   
   the media capital of the world [and] a trusted counselor and confidante to   
   every US attorney he has served.”   
      
   Williams went on to say Biase was “respected by the press corps for his   
   professionalism, integrity and candour.”   
      
   The Post reached out to the Manhattan DA’s Office about the secret   
   recording, but didn’t hear back immediately.   
      
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