Bragg 'allowed political motivations' to 'infect' prosecution of Trump, House Judiciary GOP says

EXCLUSIVE: The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office "allowed political motivations and animus to infect its prosecutorial discretion," nan House Judiciary Committee based on successful a study Thursday, saying charges were brought against erstwhile President Trump employed a "dangerously debased threshold" to prosecute "political opponents."

The GOP-led committee released a 300-page study Thursday, exclusively obtained by Fox News Digital, titled "An Anatomy of a Political Prosecution: The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office Vendetta Against President Donald J. Trump." 

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The committee, led by Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, has been investigating nan "unprecedented" multi-year investigation into Trump led by nan Manhattan’s DA agency since past year, erstwhile existent DA Alvin Bragg indicted Trump. 

Bragg charged Trump pinch 34 counts of falsifying business records successful nan first grade related to alleged hush money payments made earlier nan 2016 statesmanlike election. Trump pleaded not guilty. His criminal proceedings is presently taking spot successful New York City. 

Former president Donald Trump faces criminal proceedings successful a Manhattan courtroom (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, Pool)

"The DANY has been investigating President Trump since astatine slightest 2018, searching for immoderate ineligible mentation connected which to bring charges," nan study states. "These charges are usually misdemeanors taxable to a two-year statute of limitations, but Bragg utilized a caller and untested ineligible theory—previously declined by national prosecutors—to bootstrap nan misdemeanor allegations arsenic a felony, which extended nan statute of limitations to 5 years, by alleging that records were falsified to conceal a 2nd crime." 

Prosecutors revealed during nan criminal proceedings this week that nan alleged "second crime" was a usurpation of a New York rule called "conspiracy to beforehand aliases forestall election." Prosecutors will effort to beryllium that nan alleged conspiracy was to conceal a conspiracy to unlawfully beforehand his candidacy.

"The facts astatine nan halfway of Bragg’s governmental prosecution person not changed since 2018 and nary caller witnesses emerged betwixt past and nan day connected which Bragg revenge nan indictment," nan study states. "The Justice Department examined nan facts successful 2019 and chose not to prosecute nan case." 

Manhattan territory lawyer Alvin Bragg.  (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

But nan study points retired that moreover pinch nan DOJ’s decision, Bragg "convened a caller expansive assemblage successful January [2023] to measure nan issue." 

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"Bragg yet settled connected a caller ineligible mentation untested anyplace successful nan state and 1 that national authorities declined to prosecute to resurrect nan matter," nan study states. 

Republicans added that "the only intervening factor, it appears, was President Trump’s announcement that he would beryllium a campaigner for President successful 2024." 

The study states that Congress "has a circumstantial and manifestly important liking successful preventing politically-motivated prosecutions of existent and erstwhile presidents by elected authorities and section prosecutors, peculiarly successful jurisdictions—like New York County—where nan charismatic is popularly elected and trial-level judges deficiency life tenure." 

U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan holds a property convention astatine nan U.S. Capitol. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Bragg's determination to bring charges against Trump aft he became a campaigner for president "required nan Committee to see imaginable legislative reforms to insulate existent and erstwhile Presidents from specified politically motivated authorities and section prosecutions," nan study states. 

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Former Manhattan DA charismatic Mark Pomerantz testified earlier nan committee successful a deposition arsenic portion of nan investigation. Pomerantz declined to reply astir questions, but told nan committee that was mostly owed to nan then-pending investigation into Trump.

Pomerantz, a philanthropist to Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign, antecedently worked connected nan Trump investigation pinch ex-prosecutor Carey Dunne nether Bragg's predecessor, erstwhile Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance. Both Pomerantz and Dunne resigned aft Bragg took nan helm and raised doubts astir pursuing a lawsuit against Trump. 

After Pomerantz resigned, he wrote a tell-all book based connected nan investigation, which was still ongoing. The book seemingly made nan lawsuit to complaint Trump. 

Former Manhattan charismatic Mark Pomerantz testified astir nan investigation into Trump (William B. Plowman/NBC via Getty Images)

The committee quoted Pomerantz's book, which they said revealed "his animus, some personally and politically against Trump." 

Pomerantz wrote successful his book of his "enthusiasm to activity connected nan investigation," but said it "had thing to do pinch [his] views astir Trump's politics." However, he admitted that he was "not a fan" of Trump, and "had small regard" for him. 

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Chairman Jim Jordan told Fox News Digital connected Thursday that Pomerantz "left status to prosecute a passion task of prosecuting President Trump." 

"He looked precocious and debased for each nan imaginable ways to return down nan president. When thing panned out, he near Alvin Bragg's agency successful disgust and wrote a book for nan intent of bringing nationalist unit connected Bragg to bring immoderate charge--and it worked," Jordan said. "The full proceedings is wholly governmental and everyone knows it." 

The committee said Bragg's tenure arsenic territory lawyer contributed to rising crime successful New York City.

"Against nan backdrop of District Attorney Bragg’s determination to find immoderate logic to prosecute President Trump are Bragg’s actions to institute pro-crime, anti-victim policies that resulted successful an summation successful convulsive crime and created a vulnerable organization for New York City residents." 

Bragg issued an early memo directing adjunct DAs to debar prosecuting definite crimes, including trespassing and prostitution.

NYC Mayor Eric Adams and District Attorney Alvin Bragg ((AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews))

The memo stated that equipped robberies should not beryllium prosecuted arsenic felonies. Instead, nan caller DA directed equipped robberies to beryllium considered arsenic misdemeanor larceny unless personification was changeable during nan robbery. Bragg besides stated that his agency would not activity situation sentences isolated from for homicides and different peculiarly "heinous crimes" for illustration home unit felonies, activity crimes, and nationalist corruption. 

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The committee said that Bragg's indictment of Trump "opened a vulnerable caller anticipation of politically motivated prosecutions aliases threatened prosecutions of governmental opponents, including presidents." 

"This lawsuit establishes a dangerously debased period for these investigations and prosecutions to commence," nan study states, adding that Bragg has "opened nan doorway for early prosecutions of a erstwhile president--or existent candidate--that would wide beryllium perceived arsenic politically motivated." 

Committee Republicans said Bragg inspired different prosecutors to prosecute "politically motivated investigations and indictments of President Trump." 

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Former President Donald Trump attends nan first time of his criminal trial, astatine Manhattan Criminal Court successful New York City connected April 15, 2024.  (Angela Weiss/AFP via AP Pool)

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"The basal ngo of immoderate prosecutor’s agency is to uphold nan norm of law," nan study states. "And 1 of nan hallmarks of this ngo is to guarantee that justness is blind—applied reasonably and equally. Bragg’s politically motivated indictment of President Trump threatens to destruct this conception of unsighted justness by utilizing nan criminal justness strategy to onslaught an individual he disagrees pinch politically, and, successful turn, eroding nan assurance of nan American people." 

Bragg's agency did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment.