Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., mentioned Sunday that Manhattan District Legal professional Alvin Bragg doesn’t have a alternative on whether or not to testify earlier than Congress about doable prison costs being levied towards former President and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
Comer, the chairman of the Home Oversight Committee, advised CNN’s Jake Tapper that Bragg’s investigation into Trump’s alleged hush cash funds throughout the 2016 presidential election are a federal matter and ought to be dropped at the U.S. Division of Justice.
“This isn’t a neighborhood investigation, it is a federal investigation,” Comer mentioned. “He is investigating a presidential candidate, to not point out former president of the USA, for a federal election crime. That has no enterprise being litigated in a neighborhood district legal professional’s workplace.”
“And when he says he isn’t going to cooperate with Congress, sadly for Mr. Bragg, he would not have the luxurious of figuring out whether or not or not he can adjust to congressional requests, as a result of he crossed over two ranges of presidency, from the native stage to the federal stage, to attempt to prosecute one thing that clearly if there was a purpose for prosecution, it ought to be completed by the Division of Justice,” he mentioned.
Home Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer leads an organizational assembly for the 118th Congress, on the Capitol, Jan. 31, 2023. (AP Photograph/J. Scott Applewhite)
Former President Donald Trump is going through doable indictment from New York District Legal professional Alvin Bragg. (Shane Bevel/NCAA Images through Getty Pictures/Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg through Getty Pictures)
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Home Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, despatched a letter final week signed by Comer and Home Committee on Administration Chairman Brian Steil, R-Wis., demanding that Bragg testify earlier than Congress within the wake of his “unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority.”
The letter additionally demanded that Bragg flip over information and communications associated to the case or the workplace’s receipt and use of federal funds.
Bragg’s workplace mentioned the DA wouldn’t cooperate with the request to testify, calling the lawmakers’ requests “an illegal incursion into New York’s sovereignty.”
“Nonetheless, to help Congress in understanding the methods by which the DA’s Workplace has used federal funds, we’re getting ready and can submit a letter describing its use of federal funds,” the workplace responded in a letter.
Manhattan District Legal professional Alvin Bragg speaks at a press convention on Sept. 8, 2022, in New York Metropolis. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Pictures)
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The Republicans fired off one other letter Saturday re-upping their requests, saying Bragg’s provide was “inadequate.”
“Whereas we admire your provide to submit a letter detailing the District Legal professional’s Workplace’s use of federal funds, and we stay up for that submission, such a letter alone doesn’t fulfill our oversight requests or preclude the Committees from continuing with them,” the letter mentioned.
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Comer mentioned on CNN Saturday that “it’s not a honest argument to say it’s a neighborhood investigation whenever you’re investigating a presidential candidate and the previous president of the USA.”
“We imagine that [Bragg] ought to come clarify to us precisely what he’s investigating,” he mentioned. “If Mr. Bragg needs to come back in and clarify to us what he’s doing, and he makes a very good clarification, he makes a very good argument, and we see that we’re in an space the place we don’t belong, as a few of the Republican senators say, then we’ll again off. However we’re sick and uninterested in the meddling in federal elections, and I don’t imagine that Bragg could be doing this if Donald Trump weren’t working for president.”
