Manhattan District Lawyer Alvin Bragg stated Tuesday that he’ll testify at Congress on July 12 — someday after former President Donald Trump is sentenced on his hush money conviction.
Bragg and prosecutor Matthew Colangelo, a former high-ranking Justice Division official appointed to assist lead the Trump probe in 2022, will seem earlier than a Home of Representatives subcommittee investigating what it calls the “weaponization” of the federal authorities.
Bragg and Colangelo will seemingly face aggressive questioning from subcommittee chair and staunch Trump ally Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who has echoed Trump’s declare that the Manhattan case was politically motivated — and has known as the trial a “kangaroo courtroom.”
Different Trump supporters anticipated to grill the prosecutors embrace Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY,) who has repeated Trump’s declare that the state trial was orchestrated by President Biden, even if Biden is a federal official who doesn’t oversee the Manhattan DA’s workplace.
“It undermines the rule of regulation to unfold harmful misinformation, baseless claims, and conspiracy theories following the jury’s return of a full-count felony conviction in Individuals v. Trump,” a spokesperson for the Manhattan DA’s workplace stated. “Nonetheless, we respect our authorities establishments and plan to look voluntarily earlier than the subcommittee after sentencing.”
Trump claimed in March that the prosecutor Colangelo — who labored with Bragg, a Democrat, to research Trump instances earlier in his profession on the New York State Lawyer Basic’s Workplace — was introduced onto the case as a part of a “Biden-run” conspiracy.
“That is all Biden-run issues [sic], which means Biden and his thugs, as a result of I don’t know if he is aware of he’s alive. And it’s a disgrace what’s taking place to our nation,” Trump claimed to reporters on the time.
A jury of 12 Manhattanites final month discovered Trump, 77, guilty on felony counts of falsifying business records for concealing a 2016 payout that saved porn star Stormy Daniels from telling an embarrassing story about having intercourse with Trump a decade earlier.
The bombshell verdict within the unprecedented prison prosecution of an ex-president got here after a seven-week trial that noticed Daniels deliver X-rated testimony and Trump’s former “fixer,” Michael Cohen, take the stand against him.
Trump faces as much as 4 years in jail after being convicted of 34 felonies, but he could also be sentenced to probation or community service, authorized consultants have advised The Publish.
