WATCH: House Republicans send letter to Manhattan DA over possible Trump indictment
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) and other House Republicans have written to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg regarding his reported plans to indict former President Donald Trump. Jordan, along with House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) and House Administration Chairman Bryan Steil (R-WI), wrote to Bragg, acknowledging reports that he is about to commit “unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority: the indictment of a former President of the United States and current declared candidate for that office.”
The Ohio representative told Fox News’s Harris Faulkner on Monday that the “letter comes at the direction of the speaker.”
In the letter, the congressmen requested communication records between Bragg’s office and the U.S. Department of Justice or other federal law enforcement agencies regarding Trump’s investigation, sent or received by former employees Carey Dunne and Mark Pomerantz. They also asked for any communications or documentation having to do with the office’s use of federal funds.
According to Jordan, they want to know what federal involvement took place, if any.
“We’ve sent this letter to Mr. Bragg saying, ‘We want to talk to you. We want to know what’s going on here. We want to see the communications that have taken place between the federal Justice Department and your district attorney’s office there in Manhattan,” Jordan said on The Faulkner Focus.
He further claimed that Bragg is pursuing “some misdemeanor alleged bookkeeping error,” and that the “one thing that has changed — the one thing that I think has changed his mind is President Trump announced he was going to run for president again.”
On Saturday, Trump claimed that he would be arrested on Tuesday, asking his supporters to protest. This came after several reports emerged on Friday indicating that an indictment from the Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office over Trump’s hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels is forthcoming.
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