House Judiciary Committee: Alvin Bragg Motivated by Political Vendetta

In a report released on Thursday, the House Judiciary Committee slammed Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg for allowing political vendetta to influence his charges against Trump. 

In their press release, the committee highlighted, “The fundamental mission of any prosecutor’s office is to uphold the rule of law, and one of the hallmarks of this mission is to ensure that justice is blind—applied fairly and equally.”

“Bragg’s politically motivated prosecution of President Trump threatens to destroy this notion of blind justice by using the criminal justice system to attack an individual he disagrees with politically, and, in turn, erodes the confidence of the American people,” the committee added. 

The report entitled “An Anatomy of a Political Persecution: The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office’s Vendetta Against President Donald J. Trump” reveals “how the New York County District Attorney’s Office’s (DANY) investigation and prosecution of President Trump is the product of prosecutorial focus on one individual in search of a crime.”

The report exposed Bragg’s attempt to raise his misdemeanor charges, with 34 counts of falsifying business records, into a felony by using a complex conspiracy theory against the former president.

The committee, led by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), remarked, “The DANY has been investigating President Trump since at least 2018, searching for any legal theory on which to bring charges,” the report states. “These charges are normally misdemeanors subject to a two-year statute of limitations, but Bragg used a novel and untested legal theory—previously declined by federal prosecutors—to bootstrap the misdemeanor allegations as a felony, which extended the statute of limitations to five years, by alleging that records were falsified to conceal a second crime.” 

Furthermore, the facts presented by Bragg’s prosecutors remain the same as in 2018, using the same witnesses.

“The Justice Department examined the facts in 2019 and chose not to prosecute the case,” the committee stated.

Bragg’s charges against Trump rely on Michael Cohen’s testimony, who has been convicted of perjury and has been a vocal critic of Trump. 

The committee further remarked that Bragg brought the case forward as he succumbed to a pressure campaign from special prosecutor Mark Pomerantz.

Pomerantz, a Hilary Clinton donor, led an investigation into President Trump’s finances. He wrote the book “People vs Donald Trump.”

In 2022, the former prosecutor resigned for Bragg’s initial doubts about pursuing a criminal case against Trump.

“Pomerantz’s book was part of a public pressure campaign to force District Attorney Alvin Bragg into action,” the Judiciary Committee said in the release.

The report also states how his book shows how the “Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, populated with partisans who openly bragged about their desire to get President Trump, used its immense power in the persecution of a person, not a crime.”

“He looked high and low for all the possible ways to take down the president. When nothing panned out, he left Alvin Bragg’s office in disgust and wrote a book for the purpose of bringing public pressure on Bragg to bring some charge–and it worked,” Jordan said in an interview with Fox News.

“The whole trial is entirely political and everyone knows it.” 

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