On Thursday, the House Judiciary Committee issued a report detailing Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s extensive investigation into former President Donald J. Trump, which was funded by Soros.
During his campaign, Bragg promised to be the most effective candidate in pursuing legal action against the president.
Fox News reported that the House Judiciary Committee accused the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office of allowing political bias to influence its decision-making in prosecuting former President Trump.
The committee argued that the charges brought against Trump were based on a weak legal basis and aimed at targeting political opponents.
The committee’s 300-page report, titled “An Anatomy of a Political Prosecution: The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office Vendetta Against President Donald J. Trump,” detailed how prosecutors used a novel legal theory to extend the statute of limitations in order to bring felony charges against Trump.
The prosecutors alleged that Trump had falsified records to conceal a second crime related to election conspiracy, which they will attempt to prove during the trial.
The report on Bragg’s investigation also highlights Mark Pomerantz’s involvement in the case, citing his use of Michael Cohen, a convicted perjurer, for political purposes and his personal vendetta against President Trump.
Pomerantz, a former senior prosecutor in the Manhattan DA’s team probing Trump, resigned in 2022 in objection to Bragg’s decision to halt the investigation.
He later authored a book asserting that they had gathered compelling evidence of Trump’s criminal activities.
Pomerantz left his position after Bragg opted not to pursue charges against Trump early in his tenure as District Attorney.
However, according to the report, “Shortly after President Trump announced his White House run, the DANY pivoted back to what Pomerantz frequently referred to as the ‘zombie’ case that originated nearly five years ago.”
The committee says the decision likely came after Bragg noticed “the acclaim that New York Attorney General Letitia James received from Democrats for bringing a civil action against President Trump, his children, and the Trump Organization.”
This also came as Bragg was nearing the end of his first year in office after he made the campaign promise to get Trump.
The report continues, “Bragg noted that he hoped ‘driving down gun violence and the population at Rikers while pushing ahead on the Trump investigation . . . [would] ‘neutralize’ the noise around him.’”
Bragg has raised nearly $1 Million since making good on his campaign promises to indict Trump.
The Judiciary Committee has expressed concerns about the trend of politically motivated prosecutions by local prosecutors following the indictment of President Trump by Manhattan DA Bragg and Fulton County DA Fani Willis.
They fear that allowing such actions could influence how Presidents carry out their duties while in office.
In response, the Committee recommends legislative measures such as Rep. Russell Fry’s H.R. 2553, the No More Political Prosecutions Act, and Rep. Andy Biggs’ H.R. 2582, the No Federal Funds for Political Prosecutions Act to address this issue.
House Judiciary Committee released a summary of their 300-page report on X:
#ICYMI: Judiciary Republicans Release 300 Page Report on the Manhattan District Attorney's Office's Political Vendetta Against President Donald J. Trump
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— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) April 26, 2024
Press release from House Judiciary Committee:
Judiciary Republicans Release Report on the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office’s Political Vendetta Against President Donald J. Trump
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the House Judiciary Committee released an interim staff report titled, “An Anatomy of a Political Prosecution: The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office’s Vendetta Against President Donald J. Trump.” The report 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.
As revealed in former Special Assistant District Attorney Mark Pomerantz’s self-serving book, People vs. Trump: An Insider’s Account, since at least 2018, the DANY has weaponized the criminal justice system, scouring every aspect of President Trump’s personal life and business affairs in the hopes of finding some legal basis—however far-fetched, novel, or convoluted—to bring charges against him. When one legal theory would not pan out, instead of discontinuing its politically motivated investigation, the DANY simply pivoted to a new theory, constantly searching for a crime prosecute President Trump. Pomerantz’s book was part of a public pressure campaign to force District Attorney Alvin Bragg into action.
In April 2023, District Attorney Bragg succumbed to Pomerantz’s pressure campaign, charging President Trump with 34 felony counts using a novel and untested legal theory that bootstrapped misdemeanor allegations as a felony. The timing and basis for the DANY’s prosecution of President Trump provide a clear inference that Bragg is motivated by political calculations. The facts at the center of Bragg’s political prosecution had not changed since 2018 and no new witnesses had emerged. Federal prosecutors already declined to pursue the case, and Bragg’s predecessor Cyrus Vance also waved off the case. Bragg, too, was initially reluctant to bring the case. The only intervening factor, it appears, was President Trump’s announcement that he would be a candidate for President in 2024.
In addition to the novel and untested legal theory, Bragg’s case relies heavily on the testimony of his star witness, Michael Cohen—a convicted perjurer with a demonstrable prejudice against President Trump. Cohen has been convicted of lying to Congress and DANY prosecutors were rightly concerned about his serious credibility problems.
Against the backdrop of District Attorney Bragg’s decision to find any reason to prosecute President Trump are Bragg’s actions to institute pro-crime, anti-victim policies that allowed violent crime to surge by 23 percent during his first year as DA and created a dangerous community for New York City residents.
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.
Read the full interim staff report here.
those dems better get some thermal suits, because after november, things are going to get real, real hot for them.i wouldn’t want to be in their shoes for any amount of money.
Anyone in their right mind knows this is all a bunch of BS. The Communist Party (formerly leftist Democrats) will do anything to President Trump or anyone else they feel as a threat to their agenda. Soros & the globalist community are supporting this with their huge bucks. I still fear that President Trump will end up dead, either in prison or on the street. Our beloved country is now full of hate if you disagree with the left that wants America completely destroyed, which is very close to being accomplished. You can thank Barry the fairy for setting this mostly in motion at the behest of the demonic forces that controlled his WH. Our country is full of people that are as wicked as time itself. They feel slighted, being treated so unfairly in every instance. You can thank the education system as well. They have brainwashed students for decades to hate America and the rule of law. Everything that used to be wrong is right and right is now wrong. Families have been torn apart, by design, and God has been removed from every facet of life here in our country.
Very well said Jude.
One problem with your statement is Americans nolonger have the guts to use the 2nd Amendment and fight for our rights against the Communist party and Soros and son will still continue to pay for Communist AG’S and Communist Judges.
The Soros family has got to be killed and all Communist politicians should be Held accountable and charged for their crimes against America by We The People.!
Then and only then Justice can be restored.
How can Cohen even testify against his former client? Whatever happened to the privilege?
He’s doing Exactly what he’s been told to do by the communists in the WH…. that are running the country, while we have NO president..
Bragg is not using the law in a positive way. He is using the law for his own personal agenda which is totally wrong. The people of New YOrk City are hurting with crime, illegals. Maybe he should do his job & forget about his obsession with TRump before he does nothave a job.
The citizens of New York deserve everything coming to them, they vote for what their getting every single time. “They made their bed, now lay in it.”