Manhattan DA Alvin Brag has single-mindedly pursued age-old charges from 2016 concerning alleged events in 2006 against former President Donald Trump and has stepped into uncharted territory with the indictment of the former president this past week.
Bragg has to know that Republicans will not stand for this attempt to smear Trump and that opening the door to these proceedings will likely backfire on the DA. The media is having a field day with the charges, which are 34 counts that seem repetitive and are unexplained legally in the indictment.
Bragg is about to see his own battle start with top Republicans as Congress steps into the fray.
Top Republican lawmaker Kevin McCarthy has doubled down on his warning that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg will face a Congressional investigation over his case against Donald Trump, Daily Mail reports.
The House Speaker lashed out at the prosecutor for bringing “politicized charges” against the former president over allegations he paid hush money to two women, including ex-porn star Stormy Daniels. McCarthy, a nine-term Congressman representing California’s 22nd district, accused the 49-year-old of trying to derail the real estate mogul’s bid to return to the White House.
“Alvin Bragg is attempting to interfere in our democratic process by invoking federal law to bring politicized charges against President Trump,” he wrote on Twitter. “(His) weaponization of the federal justice process will be held accountable by Congress,” the GOP leader added.
A spokesman for McCarthy did not immediately reply to questions asking when such an investigation would be opened or what it hoped to achieve, Daily Mail noted. The 58-year-old McCarthy made his remarks after Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 felonies linked to the payments totaling $310,000.