Three House GOP committee chairs have sent a letter to Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, demanding he show his work supporting an indictment of Donald Trump.
Three House GOP committee chairs have sent a letter to Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg, demanding he show his work supporting an indictment of Donald Trump.
The two-and-a-half-page letter from House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan, James Comer of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, and Bryan Steil of the House Accountability Committee takes Bragg to task for attempting to shoehorn a local alleged misdemeanor into a federal felony by a former president and current presidential candidate after other police agencies had long dropped the farce.
“You are reportedly about to engage in an unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority: the indictment of a former President of the United States and current declared candidate for that office,” the letter began.
It acknowledges what everyone knows but the Left refuses to condemn: that the U.S., New York State, and Manhattan justice systems have been digging for something to get Trump on for years, and they have failed.
“This indictment comes after years of your office searching for a basis—any basis—on which to bring charges, ultimately settling on a novel legal theory untested anywhere in the country and one that federal authorities declined to pursue,” the chairmen alleged. Then they appealed to Bragg’s ethics and sense of history, which, of course, was like shouting into the wind. “If these reports are accurate, your actions will erode confidence in the evenhanded application of justice and unalterably interfere in the course of the 2024 presidential election,” they wrote.
Here’s the letter. At least someone around here knows what time it is. pic.twitter.com/Es5DZ6GqoD
Victoria Taft, The Adult in the Room, FITF Squad (@VictoriaTaft) March 21, 2023
The committee chairs laid out why they have a horse in the race and why they have oversight.
“[Y]our apparent decision to pursue criminal charges where federal authorities declined to do so requires oversight to inform potential legislative reforms about the delineation of prosecutorial authority between federal and local officials,” wrote the three chairmen.
They described the reports of Bragg’s zealous pursuit of Trump as “a politically motivated prosecution—while adopting progressive criminal justice policies that allow career ‘criminals [to] run[ ] the streets’ of Manhattan.” They noted that such overreach “requires congressional scrutiny about how public safety funds appropriated by Congress are implemented by local law-enforcement agencies.
