Today, the House Judiciary Committee released an interim report of its findings regarding the sham trial of Donald Trump – i.e. the BS concoction contorted by Manhattan District Attorney alvin bragg and tried by a judge – juan merchan – who was a contributor to Joe Biden and whose daughter has made a fortune on her hate of Trump.
Here is its first paragraph:
On April 4, 2023, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced that he secured a 34-count criminal indictment against President Trump that bootstrapped misdemeanor state charges for allegedly falsifying New York business records to an ambiguous, unknown federal crime to aggravate the charges to felonies. 1 The indictment focused on payments that former Trump employee Michael Cohen made to Stephanie Clifford (also referred to as Stormy Daniels) in 2017. Legal experts have detailed serious legal and constitutional deficiencies with Bragg’s politicized prosecution. First, as one legal scholar explained, even if the alleged bookkeeping irregularities “amount[ed] to fraud crimes . . . the transactions in question could not possibly have had the slightest impact on the 2016 election. They didn’t occur until months later—specifically, from February 14 through December 5, 2017.”2 Second, “even if Bragg had jurisdiction to enforce federal campaign finance law” and “even if Bragg were correct that the . . . payments were in-kind campaign contributions that had to be disclosed,” any disclosure would have been due “several months into 2017. Again, there could not conceivably have been any impact on the 2016 election.”3
In March 2023, the Judiciary Committee opened an investigation into Bragg’s unprecedented indictment of President Trump, including by requesting that former Manhattan Special Assistant District Attorney Mark Pomerantz provide relevant documents and testimony pertaining to his role leading the investigation into President Trump.4 On instructions from Bragg, Pomerantz refused to cooperate with our oversight.5 The Committee issued a subpoena for Pomerantz’s testimony, litigated it in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York upon Bragg’s objection, and prevailed, resulting in Pomerantz appearing for a deposition before the Committee on May 12, 2023.6 Despite Pomerantz’s conduct at the deposition—he refused to answer the most basic of questions—the Committee’s investigation proved fruitful.7 On April 25, 2024, the Committee released its interim findings—in short, Bragg’s prosecution of President Trump was politically motivated, unethically and likely unlawfully focused solely on one person, and “opened the door for future prosecutions of a former president—or current candidate—that would be widely perceived as politically motivated.”8
What else do you need?
Please, please tell me you are not surprised.
