Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has dismissed another letter from three House Republican chairmen seeking more information related to the hush money investigation that could lead to the indictment of former President Donald Trump.
In a letter to Bragg on Saturday, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, and Administration Committee Chairman Brian Steele argued that $130,000 in payments made during Trump’s 2016 campaign were illegal. Congress should have access to documents and testimony in the investigation. Adult film star Stormy Daniels.
“Contrary to the central argument in your letter, this matter is not merely a matter of local or state interests,” the MPs wrote. “rather, the potential criminal prosecution of a former President of the United States by an elected local prosecutor of an opposing political party (and who would likely face re-election), especially in a jurisdiction where substantial federal interests at the trial-level Judges are also popularly elected.
Bragg, who fired back at Republicans last week for requesting his testimony before Congress about the investigation, pushed back Saturday evening in a statement shared on Twitter.
“We evaluate cases in our jurisdiction based on the facts, the law, and the evidence. It is not appropriate for Congress to interfere with pending local investigations,” Bragg wrote. serves to obstruct, hinder and undermine the legitimate work of dedicated prosecutors.”
The three Republican chairs requested Bragg’s testimony in a letter last week. “You are about to allegedly engage in an unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial power: the prosecution of a former President of the United States and a currently declared candidate for that office,” he wrote on Monday.
His request came after Trump falsely predicted last weekend in a post on his social media platform Truth Social that he would be arrested on Tuesday. A decision is still pending in the Manhattan Grand Jury investigation.
The move marked the committees’ first investigative action after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., vowed to investigate those probing Trump.
The Manhattan DA’s office reprimanded Republicans on Thursday, saying they had gone overboard with their request. Leslie Dubeck, general counsel for the Manhattan DA’s office, called their request for Bragg’s testimony “an unprecedented investigation of a pending local prosecution” which “came only after Donald Trump created false hope that he would be heard the next day and his The lawyers will be arrested.” Allegedly requested you to intervene.
Since then, Trump has escalated his attacks against Bragg and the investigation, warning of “potential death and destruction” if the DA subpoenaed him in a Truth Social post early Friday.
Later that day, two law enforcement sources told NBC News that the FBI and New York Police Department were investigating a letter containing death threats, and white powder was sent to Bragg’s office.