Trump and his supporters, including Jordan, have blasted the indictment as being political in nature, with Trump also targeting Bragg by name with his outrage — which led to the prosecutor receiving death threats ahead of the indictment.
, unsealed on April 4, which accuses Trump of attempting to cover up hush money payments to two women with whom he was allegedly associated with previously: porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal.
“Chairman Jordan’s subpoena is an unconstitutional attempt to undermine an ongoing New York felony criminal prosecution and investigation,” Bragg said in a statement. “As our complaint details, this is an unprecedented, illegitimate interference by Congress that lacks any legal merit and defies basic principles of federalism. The Manhattan D.A.’s Office focuses on the law and the evidence, not political gamesmanship or threats.
Manhattan’s chief prosecutor went a step further and allege that Jordan and the House Judiciary Committee were “participating in a campaign of intimidation, retaliation and obstruction” on the former president’s behalf. Bragg further noted that Jordan and his allies, in numerous public statements and letters, “have changed their stories multiple times” regarding their effort to investigate the Trump indictment, creating “a scattershot hodgepodge of new purported legislative interests and purposes that supposedly justify the Committee’s unwarranted incursion into a state criminal case.”
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