Republicans upset with Donald Trump’s indictment are escalating their war on the prosecutor who charged him.
Republicans upset with Donald Trump’s indictment are escalating their war on the prosecutor who charged him, trying to embarrass Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on his home turf partly by falsely portraying New York City as a place overrun by crime.near Bragg's offices to examine the Democrat's "pro-crime, anti-victim" policies.
Adams called the hearing an "in-kind donation" to the Trump campaign. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, called it "a circus."Ahead of a congressional field hearing scheduled Monday morning in Lower Manhattan, FOX 5's Kendall Green is reviewing the timeline of events since earlier this month.
Jordan has sent letters to Bragg demanding testimony and documents, claiming Bragg’s office is subject to congressional scrutiny because it gets federal grants. He subpoenaed a former prosecutor, Mark Pomerantz, who previously oversaw the Trump investigation. Bragg then sued Jordan, calling the subpoena a "transparent campaign to intimidate" him.
"People hear New York and they think crime, and that’s because they’ve been trained to think that way," said Dr. Jeffrey Butts, the director of the Research & Evaluation Center at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan. "It’s not real. It’s just the stories that people tell." That set up some early clashes with NYPD leadership, and some Republicans outside the city quickly made Bragg a poster child for Democratic permissiveness.
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