House Republicans called top Manhattan prosecutors to testify before lawmakers following the unprecedented felony conviction of the presumptive GOP presidential nominee.
On Friday, the Select Committee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government issued a demand for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and his deputy, Matthew Colangelo, to appear on Capitol Hill for a June 13 hearing.
#BREAKING: @Jim_Jordan will demand Alvin Bragg and Matthew Colangelo to appear for hearing on June 13, 2024 to testify about the unprecedented political prosecution of President Trump.
— Weaponization Committee (@Weaponization) May 31, 2024
The demand comes the morning after former President Donald Trump was convicted on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records over 2016 payments to an attorney marked as “legal expenses.” Trump faces four years behind bars for each count with sentencing scheduled on July 11, just four days before the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Milwaukee.
Bragg ran for the top New York County prosecutor’s office on a platform to prosecute Trump in 2021.
“Bragg often reminded voters on the campaign trail that he helped sue the Trump administration ‘more than a hundred times’ as a deputy in the New York state attorney general’s office,” Reuters reported the year Bragg was elected.
The Manhattan DA was the first to unveil an unprecedented indictment of a former president last year when the prosecutor handed down 34 counts related to payments to keep pornographer Stormy Daniels quiet about an alleged affair amid the 2016 presidential race. The case
