In a normal-profile case, I don't think these would be a problem but this is hardly a normal-profile case. If I were in charge of assigning judges to this case, I would have found someone who was absolutely spotless with regard to the perception of bias. Of course, the lawfare people who believe that the legal system should be weaponized against their political enemies wouldn't see it that way.
Did you read the House report on Bragg’s political prosecution? It talked about the advisory team that JD Vance gathered to figure out how to get Trump, and how even that group was conflicted about trying to use Cohen to charge Trump with anything. The very fact that they assembled a team to figure out how to find something criminal against Trump tells us this is an unlawful witch hunt.
That report also focused on there being political pressure to get Trump for SOMETHING, even if there wasn’t any crime he did. To me this says that the voters in New York belong in a turd-world country, not in the USA. I wish there was a way we could expel them from the Union.
But maybe this is waking up some of the people in NY, to realize that the enemy is within their midst.
I hope so.