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EXCLUSIVE: The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office "allowed political motivations and animus to infect its prosecutorial discretion," the House Judiciary Committee argued 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."
The committee, led by Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, has been investigating the "unprecedented" multi-year probe into Trump led by the Manhattan’s DA bureau since past year, erstwhile existent DA Alvin Bragg indicted Trump.
Bragg charged Trump with 34 counts of falsifying concern records successful the archetypal grade related to alleged hush wealth payments made earlier the 2016 statesmanlike election. Trump pleaded not guilty. His transgression proceedings is presently taking spot successful New York City.
Former president Donald Trump faces transgression 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," the 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 the misdemeanor allegations arsenic a felony, which extended the statute of limitations to 5 years, by alleging that records were falsified to conceal a 2nd crime."
Prosecutors revealed during the transgression proceedings this week that the alleged "second crime" was a usurpation of a New York instrumentality called "conspiracy to beforehand oregon forestall election." Prosecutors volition effort to beryllium that the alleged conspiracy was to conceal a conspiracy to unlawfully beforehand his candidacy.
"The facts astatine the halfway of Bragg’s governmental prosecution person not changed since 2018 and nary caller witnesses emerged betwixt past and the day connected which Bragg filed the indictment," the study states. "The Justice Department examined the facts successful 2019 and chose not to prosecute the case."
Manhattan territory lawyer Alvin Bragg. (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
But the study points retired that adjacent with the DOJ’s decision, Bragg "convened a caller expansive assemblage successful January [2023] to measure the issue."
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"Bragg yet settled connected a caller ineligible mentation untested anyplace successful the state and 1 that national authorities declined to prosecute to resurrect the matter," the study states.
Republicans added that "the lone intervening factor, it appears, was President Trump’s announcement that helium would beryllium a campaigner for President successful 2024."
The study states that Congress "has a circumstantial and manifestly important involvement successful preventing politically-motivated prosecutions of existent and erstwhile presidents by elected authorities and section prosecutors, peculiarly successful jurisdictions—like New York County—where the authoritative is popularly elected and trial-level judges deficiency beingness tenure."
U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan holds a property league astatine the U.S. Capitol. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Bragg's determination to bring charges against Trump aft helium became a campaigner for president "required the Committee to see imaginable legislative reforms to insulate existent and erstwhile Presidents from specified politically motivated authorities and section prosecutions," the study states.
Former Manhattan DA authoritative Mark Pomerantz testified earlier the committee successful a deposition arsenic portion of the investigation. Pomerantz declined to reply astir questions, but told the committee that was mostly owed to the then-pending probe into Trump.
Pomerantz, a donor to Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign, antecedently worked connected the Trump probe with ex-prosecutor Carey Dunne nether Bragg's predecessor, erstwhile Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance. Both Pomerantz and Dunne resigned aft Bragg took the helm and raised doubts astir pursuing a lawsuit against Trump.
After Pomerantz resigned, helium wrote a tell-all publication based connected the investigation, which was inactive ongoing. The publication seemingly made the lawsuit to complaint Trump.
Former Manhattan authoritative Mark Pomerantz testified astir the probe 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 publication of his "enthusiasm to enactment connected the investigation," but said it "had thing to bash with [his] views astir Trump's politics." However, helium admitted that helium 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 passionateness task of prosecuting President Trump."
"He looked precocious and debased for each the imaginable ways to instrumentality down the president. When thing panned out, helium near Alvin Bragg's bureau successful disgust and wrote a publication for the 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 transgression successful New York City.
"Against the backdrop of District Attorney Bragg’s determination to find immoderate crushed to prosecute President Trump are Bragg’s actions to institute pro-crime, anti-victim policies that resulted successful an summation successful convulsive transgression and created a unsafe assemblage for New York City residents."
Bragg issued an aboriginal 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, the caller DA directed equipped robberies to beryllium considered arsenic misdemeanor larceny unless idiosyncratic was changeable during the robbery. Bragg besides stated that his bureau would not question situation sentences but for homicides and different peculiarly "heinous crimes" similar home unit felonies, enactment crimes, and nationalist corruption.
The committee said that Bragg's indictment of Trump "opened a unsafe caller anticipation of politically motivated prosecutions oregon threatened prosecutions of governmental opponents, including presidents."
"This lawsuit establishes a dangerously debased threshold for these investigations and prosecutions to commence," the study states, adding that Bragg has "opened the doorway for aboriginal 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 the archetypal time of his transgression trial, astatine Manhattan Criminal Court successful New York City connected April 15, 2024. (Angela Weiss/AFP via AP Pool)
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"The cardinal ngo of immoderate prosecutor’s bureau is to uphold the regularisation of law," the study states. "And 1 of the 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 the transgression justness strategy to onslaught an idiosyncratic helium disagrees with politically, and, successful turn, eroding the assurance of the American people."
Bragg's bureau did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment.
Brooke Singman is simply a governmental analogous and newsman for Fox News Digital, Fox News Channel and FOX Business.
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