A moderate senate Republican is blasting Manhattan District attorney Alvin Bragg’s decision to prosecute former President Trump. Maine Senator Susan Collins is a longtime Trump critic but criticizes Alvin Bragg for what she calls the “political underpinnings” of his decision to put the former president on trial. She says it’s central to the  the American legal system that charges be brought for alleged criminal misconduct, not because of who the defendant is. In a statement h writes -“. In this case the opposite has happened. The district attorney, who campaigned on a promise to prosecute Donald Trump, brought these charges precisely because of who the defendant was rather than because of any specified criminal conduct.”