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Comer warns Bragg he MUST testify after stumbling into his territory during Trump probe
Fox News ^ | March 26, 2023 12:48pm EDT | Jessica Chasmar

Posted on 03/26/2023 11:22:12 AM PDT by conservative98

Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., said Sunday that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg doesn’t have a choice on whether to testify before Congress about possible criminal charges being levied against former President and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

Comer, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, told CNN’s Jake Tapper that Bragg’s investigation into Trump’s alleged hush money payments during the 2016 presidential election are a federal matter and should be brought to the U.S. Department of Justice.

"This is not a local investigation, this is a federal investigation," Comer said. "He's investigating a presidential candidate, not to mention former president of the United States, for a federal election crime. That has no business being litigated in a local district attorney's office."

"And when he says he's not going to cooperate with Congress, unfortunately for Mr. Bragg, he doesn't have the luxury of determining whether or not he can comply with congressional requests, because he crossed over two levels of government, from the local level to the federal level, to try to prosecute something that clearly if there was a reason for prosecution, it should be done by the Department of Justice," he said.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alvinbragg; arrestalvinbragg; congress; jamescomer; obstruction; trump
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To: bk1000

They will be called racist by the media. It is how the media rolls. Deal with it.


21 posted on 03/26/2023 11:58:01 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. )
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To: conservative98

Won t do any good.

Bragg will just plead the Fifth.


22 posted on 03/26/2023 11:58:33 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: MortMan

+1


23 posted on 03/26/2023 11:58:38 AM PDT by Enterprise
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To: conservative98

If he doesn’t come in willingly, Jim Jordan will subpeona him.


And if he refuses the subpoena, the committee will vote to find him in contempt of Congress, which the House will likely do. But, alas, the D.O.J. will decline to prosecute.

I imagine the same outcome with any democrat subpoenaed by this House. Now a Republican declining to testify before a Senate committee, that’s an entirely different matter


24 posted on 03/26/2023 12:00:47 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: FLT-bird
“…tit for tat.”

Unfortunately, the GOP has never grasped that concept.

“We’re above that, even if it means losing.”

Which it always does.

25 posted on 03/26/2023 12:02:22 PM PDT by daler
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To: conservative98

Who? Me? I wasn’t even there. Those other folk did it....


26 posted on 03/26/2023 12:10:40 PM PDT by eeriegeno (Checks and balances??? What checks and balances?)
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To: eeriegeno

Or in other words, “How high can you stack a pile of Bragg?”


27 posted on 03/26/2023 12:11:50 PM PDT by eeriegeno (Checks and balances??? What checks and balances?)
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To: conservative98; napscoordinator

If its important you START with a subpoena. Period. No invitations, no letter necessary for the House.

Of course you have to have a spine.


28 posted on 03/26/2023 12:13:56 PM PDT by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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To: conservative98

Someone gonna hold a demonrats feet to the fire? I’ll believe it when I see it.


29 posted on 03/26/2023 12:17:29 PM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: CatOwner
On Friday, Bragg told them to pound sand. Will be interesting to see how they proceed.

They'll probably whine about it, the GOP's equivalent to pounding sand.

My vote is for the 'strongly worded letter.'

30 posted on 03/26/2023 12:28:12 PM PDT by HandBasketHell
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To: nickcarraway

OTOH Do we really want local DAs intervening in federal matters?


31 posted on 03/26/2023 12:30:53 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (End the Biden criminal spree now!)
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To: bk1000

Raid the Krispy Kreme


32 posted on 03/26/2023 12:44:34 PM PDT by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....l)
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To: hanamizu

DOJ is an arm of Soros and DNC. Nothing, zero, will happen to Bragg, Hunter, Schiff, Joe or Nancy. Zip.

J6 will always be a meme because the media covers and lies for Dems.


33 posted on 03/26/2023 12:45:56 PM PDT by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....l)
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To: napscoordinator

.....well, another black attorney, masquerading as a professional federal prosecutor, told Congress to pound sand on a subpoena, Congress then found him in contempt and then Congress did NOTHING !!

That should give you a hint.


34 posted on 03/26/2023 1:12:45 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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To: conservative98

Democrats had absolutely no problem putting swatting people who
Didn’t comply and putting them jail.

The current Congress should t hesitate here.


35 posted on 03/26/2023 1:16:00 PM PDT by Pete Dovgan
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To: nickcarraway
"Do we really want Congress to start intervening in local jurisdictions?"

How about you at least read the 3rd and 4th paragraph and perhaps the light will go on.

36 posted on 03/26/2023 1:21:33 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: conservative98

Refuse subpoena? Send in the Fed swat team and perp walk his butt!


37 posted on 03/26/2023 1:22:29 PM PDT by Hunterb
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To: Hunterb

Jail his fat behind in general pop among the J6 prisoners. Ha!


38 posted on 03/26/2023 1:38:12 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: CivilWarBrewing
How about you at least read the 3rd and 4th paragraph and perhaps the light will go on.

That would contradict the narrative.

39 posted on 03/26/2023 2:09:12 PM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust!)
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To: CatOwner

yeah...unfortunately Comer hasn;t paying attention


40 posted on 03/26/2023 2:58:29 PM PDT by gr8eman (Abortion! It's just a murderous ghoul thing!)
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