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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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.
Fat Alvin - “Hey, hey, hey - LOVE to play a**h**e!!!”
Bragg’s just going to ignore this because he’s a black man that’s been given too much power. He’s drunk on it.
And allen laughed and laughed and laughed. All the way to the bank.
Not exactly. Bragg’s office requested his response to be in a form of a ltter. Comer denied that request today and said he must testify in person. Stay tuned.
Do we really want Congress to start intervening in local jurisdictions?
Im thinking he will not interview.
Do we really want local DAs to start intervening in federal laws?
Actually it was on Saturday. Bragg said on Friday he could do it in writing. Request denied Saturday. If he doesn’t come in willingly, Jim Jordan will subpeona him.
Only the locals that want to press federal charges.
Yep. Issue him a subpeona. If he does not appear, send the feds to go arrest him.
That’s how the Democrats wanted to play so fine, tit for tat.
Yup. DOJ is just champing at the bit to prosecute this. Mhmmm. Nothing would please Garland more, except prosecuting Hunter./s
So many questions:
1: What are they going to do, write him a sternly worded letter?
2: Will they actually send deputies to round him up?
3: How can the do anything and it not be deemed racist by the media?
In some cases, yes. In this case, sure. In every case, no.
Drag his stupid, fat butt up there and play the perjury trap game with him the same way that the ‘RATs do it. Have the Sargent at Arms ready to arrest him and place him in the Capitol jail cell and keep him in for the number of days + 1 that the longest serving J6 prisoner serves.
“Do we really want Congress to start intervening in local jurisdictions?”
Fair question, however if this current GOPe (until proven otherwise) acts like the typical do-nothings they are they’ll get tossed by 2026 like they always do. This is the last time for congress to perform we’ll see in our lifetimes.
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