Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office pushed back on House Republicans’ recent demand that he provide sworn testimony on his investigation into Donald Trump in the Stormy Daniels hush money case – an inquiry that came after the former president announced he expected to be arrested on Tuesday.
Although I normally would not think this… I think we need more sternly worded letters in response to the GOP that lays out very clearly how wrong they are. This is a good start. NY should have been even more forceful.
Emine?
I just wanted to say thanks for all you do here.
What a great letter: politely telling ‘em to pound sand, and laying out the legal case why.
My guess is too many of the words were too big for the nincompoops to understand.
Now the accusations will come that Bragg is hiding behind an illegitimate reading of the law. It’s not like any of the minions will contest it, since they don’t understand it themselves.
Too many big words.
There you go again, applying the GOP talking point of “state’s rights” to this matter. Now they’re going to have to be "anti-states-rights. It’s all your fault!
“While the DA’s Office will not allow a Congressional investigation to impede the exercise of New York’s sovereign police power, this Office will always treat a fellow government entity with due respect,” the letter read.
Far nicer than what these fascists deserve.
States rights! …Except when our GOD KING is involved and we force Congress into a state criminal investigation. The breach of federalism is beyond egregious here.
I want additional penalties for Trump making an unfounded arrest announcement in order to attempt to derail all of this.
What I’m reading is that fat boy is pissed off because he wasn’t taken into custody on the day he predicted he’d be taken into custody at the Manhattan courthouse in front of his fan boys and other assorted thugs.
I thought the Repubs didn’t like drag queens! Jim Jordan and the GOPers demands are “Benghazi Cross Dressed!” It’s just so confusing, they cannot decide what they are for and what they are against…
GOP clowns don’t care about the facts, they just want to spread their stupidity as far and wide as they can.
Instead, they asked for a meeting to “confer with committee staff to better understand what information the DA’s Office can provide that relates to a legitimate legislative interest.”
If anyone deserves to be hoisted by this petard, it’s Donnie and his allies.
And, of course, I don’t think there’s any argument with it.
Jordan is not a clown, at least I’ve never seen a clown bent on ending rule of law.
The tub of lard thought he could create a yuge media martyrdom event but Bragg & Co have let his fat tucchus twist in the wind going splut splut splut. They won’t arrest him for one simple reason - it would be a Grade A opportunity for him to climb up on a cross with “the whole world watching”.
Well, I certainly didn’t.
“Fellow government entity” is Bragg’s way of telling Jordan that the New York County (Manhattan) DA’s office co-equal to Jordan, so Jordan should drop the political grandstanding.
It’s kind of amazing but not totally unpredictable that Rs would rush to fat boy’s side with half baked defenses not knowing and/or not caring that he wouldn’t do the same for them. But I guess this how the leader of a cult and the followers roll. Something like Jim Jones and his orders to his followers to commit suicide.
Bragg’s response strikes me as the right way to answer Jordan’s “performance art” committee. Consistent and highly publicized official ridicule offered by serious people doing serious work, the kind of ridicule that highlights the committee’s cravenness, is what Jordan and Co. deserve.
Except for pleasing the MAGA base, that isn’t a good look for these guys.
A good response from Bragg’s office, but if it is indeed a state matter, as I think all can agree, won’t some official in Texas decide he can sue the state of New York over this prosecution?
Strike him down and he will become more clownish than you can possibly imagine!
They’re the Johnny Appleseed of Stoopid.
(And COVID.)