It was the spring of 2021, and all the candidates for Manhattan district attorney were repeatedly asked one question: how would they handle the office’s high profile investigation in to Donald Trump?

Alvin Bragg said he had the experience to take it on.

“I oversaw the attorney general’s office as the number two lawyer and in so doing drove and directed cases like this, cases that are high profile and quite consequential, some involving Trump himself,” Bragg said.

Three years later, Trump was found guilty on all 34 felony charges of falsifying business records in his New York City criminal hush money trial.

“First and foremost, I want to thank the jury for its service,” said Bragg Thursday.

Bragg is the first prosecutor in the country to ever secure a guilty verdict against a former president.

The victory for the Manhattanite comes after a somewhat rocky start for the DA.

“There have been, let me just say, some misunderstandings,” he said in 2022 days after taking office.

The release of a memo days into his tenure detailed how jail should be reserved for serious cases, not lower-level offenses. It sparked a backlash.

It created a perception the Manhattan prosecutor would be soft on crime — a notion he has been trying to reverse ever since.

Simultaneously behind the scenes, Bragg was crafting a case against the former president, reviving the hush money scheme instead of pursuing a financial fraud case — a decision that led to high-profile resignations in his office.

That decision, political experts say, may prove to be the best for his political future, as he seeks re-election next year.

“At the conclusion we are looking at one conviction of Donald Trump,” Democratic consultant Jefrey Pollock said. “All the rest, Donald Trump has been able to manhandle and move. So I think Alvin Bragg is going to get a lot of credit for taking the risk and, of course, succeeding.”