The Home Judiciary Committee launched a report detailing Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's “political vendetta” in opposition to Donald Trump.
“In April 2023, District Legal professional Bragg succumbed [former Special Assistant District Attorney Mark Pomerantz] strain marketing campaign that charged President Trump with 34 felonies utilizing a brand new and unproven authorized concept that made misdemeanor prices a felony,” the press launch reads. “The timing and foundation for DANY's prosecution of President Trump present a transparent inference that Bragg is motivated by political calculations.”
“The information on the heart of Bragg's political prosecution haven’t modified since 2018, and no new witnesses have come ahead. Federal prosecutors have already declined to pursue the case, and Bragg's predecessor, Cyrus Vance, additionally dropped the case. Bragg was additionally initially reluctant to current the case,” the report stated. “The one intervening issue, it appears, was President Trump's announcement that he would run for president in 2024.”
In response to the discharge, Bragg's prosecution of Trump “threatens to destroy this notion of blind justice by utilizing the prison justice system to assault people with whom he disagrees politically” and “erodes the belief of the American individuals.”
The report stated Bragg's workplace “armed the prison justice system, probing each side of President Trump's private life and enterprise dealings, going again a long time in hopes of discovering some authorized foundation — nonetheless far-fetched, novel or convoluted — that might convey prices in opposition to him.” “
Pomerantz beforehand labored on the Trump investigation alongside Vance. After Pomerantz later resigned, he wrote a e book concerning the investigation that the committee described as revealing his “animus, each personally and politically, in opposition to Trump.”
Home Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) advised Fox Information Digital that Pomerantz's e book was a “ardour venture.”
“He regarded excessive and low to see each doable technique to take down the president. When nothing occurred, he left Alvin Bragg's workplace in disgust and wrote a e book to place public strain on Bragg to press prices — and it labored,” Jordan stated. “The entire course of is solely political and everybody is aware of it.”
Bragg's indictment of Trump “opened up a harmful new chance of politically motivated prosecutions or threatened prosecutions of political opponents, together with presidents,” the report stated. “This case units a dangerously low bar for these investigations and prosecutions to start. With the accusation, Bragg opened the door to a future prosecution of a former president — or a present candidate — that might be broadly seen as politically motivated. As we've seen, different prosecutors have adopted Bragg's lead and led politically motivated investigations and indictments of President Trump.
