House Republicans are doubling down on their demands that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg turn over a trove of documents and communications related to the criminal probe into former President Donald Trump.
The lawmakers fired back in their letter on Saturday, saying that contrary to the district attorney’s arguments, the prosecution of the former president exceeds state and local interests.
The lawmakers said if politically motivated prosecutions by local officials were to become the norm, it would have “a profound impact on how presidents choose to exercise their powers while in office.” “Furthermore, your reported decision to indict a former President requires congressional scrutiny about how federal public safety funds appropriated by Congress are implemented by local law-enforcement agencies and how limited resources are prioritized,” the wrote., who is now the leading 2024 Republican presidential candidate.
“Notably, your reply letter did not dispute the central allegations at issue—that you, under political pressure from left-wing activists and former prosecutors in your office are reportedly planning to use an alleged federal campaign finance violation, previously declined by federal prosecutors, as a vehicle to extend the statute of limitations on an otherwise misdemeanor offense and indict for the first time in history a former President of the United States,” the lawmakers wrote.
The grand jury is reportedly weighing charges of falsifying records to conceal the hush money payments.
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