Bragg’s office rages against House GOP’s attempts to derail the judicial system
Bragg’s office protests House GOP demand for Manhattan DA to testify on Trump indictment
- GOP chairmen asked for a list of questions they wanted to ask the district attorney
- They also asked them ‘to describe what kind of documents you think we could produce’ without interfering with the matter
- Trump was indicted Thursday night and is expected to be arrested Tuesday
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg hit back at House GOP leaders threatening to subpoena him and charge them with “dangerous usurpation” of the justice system.
Leslie B. Dubeck, the general counsel for Bragg’s office, wrote to the three committee chairmen demanding documents and testimony from Bragg, asking them for a list of questions they wanted to ask the district attorney and for “the kind of describe documents you think we could produce’ without interfering in the matter.
Dubeck tapped Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan, Oversight Chair James Comer and Administration Chair Bryan Steil for choosing to “cooperate” with former President Trump’s efforts to “defame and belittle” Bragg.
Bragg’s office asked the chairpersons to come to a “negotiated settlement” before issuing a subpoena to the prosecutor.
“As committee chairmen, you could use the stature of your office to denounce these attacks and urge respect for the fairness of our justice system and for the work of the impartial grand jury,” she suggested, recalling Trump’s threats of death and death. devastation.’
In a series of two letters, the GOP chairmen demanded that Bragg provide information and testimony, saying he faced “political pressure from left-wing activists.”
In their second letter, lawmakers said they were investigating Bragg with the legislative goal of possibly introducing a bill to protect former presidents from state investigations for “personal acts.” Commissions must have a legislative purpose when they issue subpoenas, as they threatened with Bragg.
But Bragg’s office accused the chairmen of fabricating “an unwarranted pretext to interfere with the work of our office.”
“We urge you to refrain from making these inflammatory allegations, withdraw your request for information, and allow the criminal process to proceed without unlawful political interference.”
A grand jury in Manhattan voted dramatically to indict Donald Trump for more than $130,000 in hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels, making him the first former president ever to face criminal charges.
It marks the end of a years-long investigation into hush money paid to adult film star Stormy Daniels in 2016, allegedly to buy her silence about their affair.
The indictment means he is the first former president to be charged with a crime and it takes the country into uncharted legal and political territory, with a presidential candidate now under arrest and facing humiliating trials.
Bragg’s office asked chairmen to come to a “negotiated settlement” before issuing a subpoena to the prosecutor
Bragg’s office indicted Trump Thursday night
Republican House lawmakers have also set their sights on two former prosecutors who have resigned from the Manhattan DA’s office over its handling of its investigation of former President Trump.
Attorney Mark Pomerantz and Carey Dunne attempted to prosecute Trump in 2022 and resigned after Bragg rejected their legal theories.
That came amid a lack of movement in what has been dubbed a “zombie” case.
The letter states that the two have “resigned due to Bragg’s initial reluctance to move forward with the charges in 2022.”
“Bragg is now trying to ‘shoehorn’ the same case with identical facts into a new prosecution,” the letter said.
Bragg’s office fired back: “Your examination of the facts of a single criminal investigation, for the purported purpose of determining whether any charges against Mr. Trump are warranted, is an improper and dangerous usurpation of executive and judicial functions.”